This "news" has diddly fucking squat to do with technology, and as this is a technology site, it doesn't belong here. Doesn't matter if you consider yourself a nerd and this is news to you, cuz guess what, the vast majority of useless mainstream entertainment news would most likely be news to you and it still wouldn't belong on Slashdot.
Except they haven't replaced all of the images. I just looked in my account and only one of my images (a horribly outdated tf2 screenshot, of all things) was replaced.
Nope, they developed their own system, and found it to be functionally similar to Toyota's, so rather than embroil themselves in lawsuits with Toyota, they cross-licensed.
Yes, it was Ford, and it was functionally similar enough to HSD that upon close inspection, it might as well have been HSD. They licensed the HSD from Toyota while implementing their own design, the licensing done entirely for legal reasons, while they themselves licensed some of their diesel tech to Toyota in exchange. As the article points out, no money changed hands.
Implementation-wise, what you've got is an independent traction motor and a generator that's slaved to the ICE. The generator's engaged when the battery is at low SOC, which you perceive as the engine then starts struggling to both propel the vehicle and charge the battery at the same time. The generator only acts as a motor in the act of starting the ICE. The independent traction motor handles both propulsion and regenerative braking.
Nope. Diesel-electric locomotives use the diesel engines to power electric generators that then power individual electric motors at each wheel. The diesel engines are not directly connected to the wheels. The closest car analogue is the Chevy Volt.
Hybrid-electric vehicles, meanwhile, are basically just regular ICE vehicles that share a common driveshaft with an electric motor. They can operate entirely on electric, entirely on the ICE, or combine the two.
As far as the game world allows. That's the beauty of it. You describe the game world as being specifically engineered to make griefing a snap, and so that's exactly what he's doing, much to the consternation of the players that are using PvP zones as makeshift chat rooms. That so many people are getting butthurt over this makes it all the funnier. Not to mention insightful, in terms of how butthurt people will tend to get over something as intangible and irrelevant as an online avatar. I mean, if all they're there for is to chat, what do they care about stats?
You do know there's a bug/glitch that AFAIK hasn't yet been patched that allows griefers to grab the intelligence and ghost themselves while carrying it? I'm not going to explain how (obviously), but there's that.
Plus I keep hearing about something involving using the shader effect of the flamethrower's airblast in place of the flames to lag everyone in line-of-sight.
In a game that's structured, by its nature and mission, to be "Us vs Them" then it's within the duty of a player to be a "griefer" of the opposite team.
Like achievement farmers in TF2? I've made it a hobby of mine to hunt them down and make their lives miserable under the guise of "playing the game the way the developers intended us to." Great fun.
"No chance at fighting back," because they stood around and got their panties in a collective twist crying over the presence of a griefer instead of denying the griefer his fun by, oh I dunno, leaving the PvP arena? Those that actually tried to kill him off just got their asses handed to themselves because, again, they've spent too much time chatting it up and not enough time learning how to play the damn game.
And when the prevailing norm for "certain activities" is "standing around all day chatting it up in a PvP arena," and "degrees of skill" being "typing speed" and "capability to retain the contents of your bladder for extended lengths of time," is it at all surprising that large numbers of people got their collective asses handed to them by a single griefer? When shit like this is the norm, it's hard to deny that what you've got is nothing but an overglorified IRC client.
No, not trolling, griefing. He was playing within the bounds of the game's design, but outside the bounds of the expectation of the other players. Load TF2 and go to an achievement farming server and start killing everyone as pyro. You'll get much the same reaction. It's also just about as hilarious.
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This "news" has diddly fucking squat to do with technology, and as this is a technology site, it doesn't belong here. Doesn't matter if you consider yourself a nerd and this is news to you, cuz guess what, the vast majority of useless mainstream entertainment news would most likely be news to you and it still wouldn't belong on Slashdot.
How long does traditional news media trail behind TotalFark?
Except they haven't replaced all of the images. I just looked in my account and only one of my images (a horribly outdated tf2 screenshot, of all things) was replaced.
Why? Don't you incur a net loss in efficiency by converting mechanical power to electrical and back to mechanical?
Nope, they developed their own system, and found it to be functionally similar to Toyota's, so rather than embroil themselves in lawsuits with Toyota, they cross-licensed.
Disclaimer: I own an Escape Hybrid.
Yes, it was Ford, and it was functionally similar enough to HSD that upon close inspection, it might as well have been HSD. They licensed the HSD from Toyota while implementing their own design, the licensing done entirely for legal reasons, while they themselves licensed some of their diesel tech to Toyota in exchange. As the article points out, no money changed hands.
Implementation-wise, what you've got is an independent traction motor and a generator that's slaved to the ICE. The generator's engaged when the battery is at low SOC, which you perceive as the engine then starts struggling to both propel the vehicle and charge the battery at the same time. The generator only acts as a motor in the act of starting the ICE. The independent traction motor handles both propulsion and regenerative braking.
Nope. Diesel-electric locomotives use the diesel engines to power electric generators that then power individual electric motors at each wheel. The diesel engines are not directly connected to the wheels. The closest car analogue is the Chevy Volt.
Hybrid-electric vehicles, meanwhile, are basically just regular ICE vehicles that share a common driveshaft with an electric motor. They can operate entirely on electric, entirely on the ICE, or combine the two.
Except, again, they weren't actually playing. They were using the PvP zones as chat rooms.
Of course it was with their consent. Nobody was forcing them to remain in the PvP zone with him.
As far as the game world allows. That's the beauty of it. You describe the game world as being specifically engineered to make griefing a snap, and so that's exactly what he's doing, much to the consternation of the players that are using PvP zones as makeshift chat rooms. That so many people are getting butthurt over this makes it all the funnier. Not to mention insightful, in terms of how butthurt people will tend to get over something as intangible and irrelevant as an online avatar. I mean, if all they're there for is to chat, what do they care about stats?
Yes, I do it in TF2 on noob servers.
You do know there's a bug/glitch that AFAIK hasn't yet been patched that allows griefers to grab the intelligence and ghost themselves while carrying it? I'm not going to explain how (obviously), but there's that.
Plus I keep hearing about something involving using the shader effect of the flamethrower's airblast in place of the flames to lag everyone in line-of-sight.
If it's designated by the proprietor as a smoking area, then yes. If it's designated by the proprietor as a non-smoking area, then no.
Sure it does. There's nothing stopping people from leaving the PvP arena.
That's not cheating, that's griefing. Look up Team Roomba on YouTube.
That's my exact attitude when I play TF2.
MMORPG or MMOIRCc?
Like achievement farmers in TF2? I've made it a hobby of mine to hunt them down and make their lives miserable under the guise of "playing the game the way the developers intended us to." Great fun.
"No chance at fighting back," because they stood around and got their panties in a collective twist crying over the presence of a griefer instead of denying the griefer his fun by, oh I dunno, leaving the PvP arena? Those that actually tried to kill him off just got their asses handed to themselves because, again, they've spent too much time chatting it up and not enough time learning how to play the damn game.
Most forms of unavoidable instakill used as one's primary means of attack, despite it being a known bug/glitch, is usually treated as "griefing."
Except they're not playing games they're standing around chatting it up. It's IRC with graphical avatars.
And when the prevailing norm for "certain activities" is "standing around all day chatting it up in a PvP arena," and "degrees of skill" being "typing speed" and "capability to retain the contents of your bladder for extended lengths of time," is it at all surprising that large numbers of people got their collective asses handed to them by a single griefer? When shit like this is the norm, it's hard to deny that what you've got is nothing but an overglorified IRC client.
No, not trolling, griefing. He was playing within the bounds of the game's design, but outside the bounds of the expectation of the other players. Load TF2 and go to an achievement farming server and start killing everyone as pyro. You'll get much the same reaction. It's also just about as hilarious.
And yet, what, they still got their asses handed to them? Methinks they need to spend less time chatting and more time playing the fucking game.
Oh, this one's easy. The government has no problem whatsoever wasting our money. That's why.