Have to agree with you. XBOX PS2
Over 20 great arcade games including:
SpyHunter,
Defender,
Gauntlet,
Joust,
Paperboy,
Rampage,
Marble Madness,
Robotron 2084,
Smash TV,
Joust 2,
Bubbles,
RoadBlasters,
Stargate,
Moon Patrol,
Blaster,
Rampart,
Sinistar,
Super Sprint,
720,
Toobin',
KLAX,
SPLAT!,
Satan's Hollow,
Vindicators,
Root Beer Tapper
Toobin was a favorite, but Tapper was amazing. I can totally see that working well with the analog stick. Rampart was a total sleeper. I had that thing on my Atari Lynx. Where's Tournament Cyberball?
Main Entry: 1acid
Pronunciation: 'a-s&d
Function: adjective
Etymology: French or Latin; French acide, from Latin acidus, from acEre to be sour -- more at ACET-
2 a : of, relating to, or being an acid; also : having the reactions or characteristics of an acid (acid soil) (an acid solution) b of salts and esters : derived by partial exchange of replaceable hydrogen (acid sodium carbonate NaHCO3) c : containing or involving the use of an acid (as in manufacture) d : marked by or resulting from an abnormally high concentration of acid (acid indigestion)
It's the power consumption that'll kill ya...
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Marty! This thing must take One-point-twenty-one-Giga-watts!
Also, it should be noted that Element 115 should it possess diamagnetism, and all indications are that it should, it will be a much better diamagnetic material than Bismuth.
Actually, for the reasons you think it would be a better diagmagnetic material it would not be a better diamagnetic material. You are working in a Periodic-Table-Is-Periodic paradigm, where diamagnetism increases as you move through the group. However, for these superheavy elements, the innermost electrons are experiencing such an intense electromagnetic field from the enormous pile of protons that they move at relativistic speeds. Their orbitals experience a Lorentz contraction and better shield the nucleus for the outermost d-electrons--the source of the diamagnetic effects. Because of the shielding, these orbitals are much larger than one would think for a nucleus of that size, and hence, the chemical and physico-chemical properties are more like a lighter element of the group, antimony (Sb).
You also have to recgonize that Microsoft owns the trademark rights to the name "Microsoft" (or things that sound like it or are spelled like it).
I didn't think you could argue trademark infringement against someone who actually has that name and did not change to that name for commercial gain. I.e., if my last name is "McDonald" and I open a restaurant called "McDonald's", then other restaurants which have trademarked the name can't do much to stop me.
Also, assuming this guy's name is "Mike Rowe", then his use of the name pre-dates the corporation's by a few years. I believe that also factors into it. I'm having vague recollections of a Food King suit in central CA about 15 years ago.
It's true they have an obligation to protect the trademark, but I don't think they can win this case--seems like a waste of shareholder money to me.
Google's great leap was a result of technological and informational insight--realize that there are nodes and referrers and how they relate. Referrers are sites that don't have a lot of information in and of themselves, beyond the fact that they point to the information of others. Nodes are the "trusted sources" that many referrers point towards. This leap from the Billion Metatags = Webcrawler Results is what made Google so great. Now the collective opinion matters more than the will one webmaster.
As for your questions:
Will it gain the enormous foothold in the collective consciousness that Google has acquired?
I doubt it. If anything, Google will eat better technologies when it comes to presentation.
Will the UI and secondary services be as good as Google itself?...I was just talking to my mom about searches of that type of ambiguous nature the other day.
I think the secondary services are superb. They are not on the level of Google vs Old-School Altavista, but they impress none-the-less. And, your Mom sounds tehHOTT!!1
Oh please, quit your pissing. Some random with a week on the server's email "OMFG THIZ DUDE IZ TEHWINN!!1 ON ME!" isn't what Blizzard is basing account deletion on. The accounts in question, "have been tied to the use of a hack or cheat program while playing StarCraft, Diablo II, or Warcraft III on Battle.net". Do you actually believe that the folks making these decisions look at the replay and can't tell the difference between someone who is good and someone with a cheat? Nevermind the accounts deleted because of duped keys, items, etc.
It's better to view the PC market as a system where the current set of games is a beta test for what you *will* be playing in a year or so, at the earliest. That way, all the bugs (savegame corruption, random crashes, getting stuck) are ironed out, frequently expansions get bundled with the main game for free, there are good strategy resources out, the hardware is cheaper, and you don't spend all your time on the bleeding edge. It's called "bleeding" for a reason.
As a Mac user, I get to apply this reasoning, AND throw in extra maps and features (a la UT2003), AND an extra zillion "gamma" testers to iron out balance of play and other nasty issues.
Of course I have to wait another year (a la UT2003).
Well, herewould be the place to check for such real numbers, but I'm sure the study is either not started or still ongoing. I think we all feel safer knowing that the 15-person bus rollover study is completed though.
I remember listening to a report on NPR by someone from the Illinois equivalent of the NTSB and he had some good reasons for why cell phones are more distracting than stereos or even in-car conversation: Cellphones keep the driver distracted by a non-traffic sensitive other. Most drivers can work the radio without looking at it. Most passengers in the car can see when things are getting hairy traffic-wise and shut the hell up. Random on the cellphone doesn't know where the hell you are and can't tell you about the semi making a wide right.
Sounds like a return to literacy testing--especially if it requires the candidates name be written out or something similarly ridiculous. Before you get too crazy in replies--please recognize that the US does not have an official language, and that we have many voters that do not use a western alphabet--picture a Chinese grandmother being asked to write the number 7 on a slip of paper because the ballot said "Peace & Freedom -- 7". The same case applies for some Russian emigres, those of Persian/Arabic origin, and many Asian cultures. I think this system may be OK in a monoglot nation like Denmark, but it just won't work here.
Yep, Graffle is the way to go if you don't need flythrough's or anything. It's free with "Power User" Macs, like Powerbooks and towers. The office palette has furniture, computers, network drops, outlets, etc, so you can square everyone with that stuff.
For FragFest Fun, you probably won't do better than Unreal. Try getting new maps and mods to change up the fun; or try team combat
I agree. Both StrikeForce and Tactical Ops are available in PC and Mac flavors for UT. They have both been favorably compared to Counterstrike if that's your bag.
Tactical Ops: SWAT v Terrorists, realistic guns, damage, etc.
Strike-Force: all of the above, plus "pulse", a neat feature that takes into account how much gear you are rucking and what you've done recently--keeps folks from hopping constantly--pulse lowers their accuracy and makes them breathe noticeably, exposing position. Windows users click here.
Like a lot of Mac games--this game has add-ons. Mac players don't get that many games to begin with, so the ones that they like get a lot of effort put into them by the fanbase. Currently, EV Nova has 11 pages of plug-ins, ranging in size from 1K annoyance patches to 12MB overhauls. 12MB is pretty substantial when the game itself is 70MB. The previous versions had -huge- plug-ins that converted all the ships and missions to Star Wars and Star Trek. I'm sure these are in the works. Seriously worth checking out.
Well, they're begging the question somewhat, but it seems true that globular clusters metal deficient. Jupiter's atmosphere is 82% hydrogen, 14% helium and only a trace of heavier elements. Who knows what goes on at the core, but that would seem to indicate that planets don't need rock to form.
Last I heard Jupiter's core was hypothesized to be "metallic hydrogen" liquid. It's dense enough to collapse the hydrogen to this state which would help explain its MASSIVE magnetic fields and bizarre radio signature. See these briefarticles for more info.
As soon as I read the headline I thought of two games: Burgertime on the NES and Karnov on the NES. Burgertime was about the worst arcade-to-console translation ever. SUCH a pile. The controls were terrible--I would repeatedly miss ladders and shoot pepper in the wrong directions. HATED IT.
Karnov was INSANELY difficult. I remember jumping really high and landing on bad guys that killed me about 12 seconds after the start of every game. Mind you, Metroid was out at the time--that was a little bit better. The only game harder that I played was that psycho Konami Rush'n Attack. I made it to Level 2 about 4 out of a million times and the dog+sniper combo always erased me. Maybe that Donkey Kong guy should take a crack at that bad boy.
Thanks for the smarmy remark you AC shithead. I ~read~ the paper yesterday, so going to the nytimes.com site at all was the extra minute I invested.
Gibson said it DID come true yesterday...
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William Gibson wrote an editorial in the New York TimesREGISTRATION REQUIRED yesterday about 1984 and did not agree overly with Gates' assessment of, "didn't come true, and I don't believe it will."
He thinks not only DID it come true, it's worse than Orwell thought! His best thought: "It is becoming unprecedentedly difficult for anyone, anyone at all, to keep a secret."
Check it out--it's worth creating the bogus ID for.
Psychology of cost aside, a lot of businesses online only have to gain from using $*99 pricing schemes because of the manner in which "price-grabbing" engines work. A lot of people will type into an engine looking for a computer that costs LESS THAN $2400 for example. Most engines treat this literally and will not find a $2400 machine or will put it at the bottom. Rare is the consumer whose budget is $2401.
Side topic: those 10ths of cents? They are called "mills". That's some good nerd trivia there.
Don't you see that this will make me the world's greatest Unreal Tournament 2003 player? After all, it was written with XBox's heinous controller in mind (I heard this somewhere--linkage?). With this, and my Macintosh getting the UT2003 GotY GOLD edition sometime in 2005, I will never be killed!
Anyone want to play UT1999 GotY GOLD edition with me until then?
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Shrek came out too. That was well-received (and even took down Monsters, Inc.) for Best Animated Movie oscar.
Have to agree with you.
XBOX
PS2
Over 20 great arcade games including: SpyHunter, Defender, Gauntlet, Joust, Paperboy, Rampage, Marble Madness, Robotron 2084, Smash TV, Joust 2, Bubbles, RoadBlasters, Stargate, Moon Patrol, Blaster, Rampart, Sinistar, Super Sprint, 720, Toobin', KLAX, SPLAT!, Satan's Hollow, Vindicators, Root Beer Tapper
Toobin was a favorite, but Tapper was amazing. I can totally see that working well with the analog stick. Rampart was a total sleeper. I had that thing on my Atari Lynx. Where's Tournament Cyberball?
Main Entry: 1acid
Pronunciation: 'a-s&d
Function: adjective
Etymology: French or Latin; French acide, from Latin acidus, from acEre to be sour -- more at ACET-
2 a : of, relating to, or being an acid; also : having the reactions or characteristics of an acid (acid soil) (an acid solution) b of salts and esters : derived by partial exchange of replaceable hydrogen (acid sodium carbonate NaHCO3) c : containing or involving the use of an acid (as in manufacture) d : marked by or resulting from an abnormally high concentration of acid (acid indigestion)
Marty! This thing must take One-point-twenty-one-Giga-watts!
Josh, is that you?
Also, assuming this guy's name is "Mike Rowe", then his use of the name pre-dates the corporation's by a few years. I believe that also factors into it. I'm having vague recollections of a Food King suit in central CA about 15 years ago.
It's true they have an obligation to protect the trademark, but I don't think they can win this case--seems like a waste of shareholder money to me.
As for your questions:
I doubt it. If anything, Google will eat better technologies when it comes to presentation. I think the secondary services are superb. They are not on the level of Google vs Old-School Altavista, but they impress none-the-less. And, your Mom sounds tehHOTT!!1Oh please, quit your pissing. Some random with a week on the server's email "OMFG THIZ DUDE IZ TEHWINN!!1 ON ME!" isn't what Blizzard is basing account deletion on. The accounts in question, "have been tied to the use of a hack or cheat program while playing StarCraft, Diablo II, or Warcraft III on Battle.net". Do you actually believe that the folks making these decisions look at the replay and can't tell the difference between someone who is good and someone with a cheat? Nevermind the accounts deleted because of duped keys, items, etc.
But apparently not the FAQ.
Dhalsim was my go-to guy on the World Warrior (and totally unbeatable). My games would routinely sound like this:
Yo-GAH
Yo-GAH
Yo-GAH
YogaFLAAAAAME.
Of course I have to wait another year (a la UT2003).
I remember listening to a report on NPR by someone from the Illinois equivalent of the NTSB and he had some good reasons for why cell phones are more distracting than stereos or even in-car conversation: Cellphones keep the driver distracted by a non-traffic sensitive other. Most drivers can work the radio without looking at it. Most passengers in the car can see when things are getting hairy traffic-wise and shut the hell up. Random on the cellphone doesn't know where the hell you are and can't tell you about the semi making a wide right.
Sounds like a return to literacy testing--especially if it requires the candidates name be written out or something similarly ridiculous. Before you get too crazy in replies--please recognize that the US does not have an official language, and that we have many voters that do not use a western alphabet--picture a Chinese grandmother being asked to write the number 7 on a slip of paper because the ballot said "Peace & Freedom -- 7". The same case applies for some Russian emigres, those of Persian/Arabic origin, and many Asian cultures. I think this system may be OK in a monoglot nation like Denmark, but it just won't work here.
Yep, Graffle is the way to go if you don't need flythrough's or anything. It's free with "Power User" Macs, like Powerbooks and towers. The office palette has furniture, computers, network drops, outlets, etc, so you can square everyone with that stuff.
Tactical Ops: SWAT v Terrorists, realistic guns, damage, etc.
Strike-Force: all of the above, plus "pulse", a neat feature that takes into account how much gear you are rucking and what you've done recently--keeps folks from hopping constantly--pulse lowers their accuracy and makes them breathe noticeably, exposing position. Windows users click here.
Like a lot of Mac games--this game has add-ons. Mac players don't get that many games to begin with, so the ones that they like get a lot of effort put into them by the fanbase. Currently, EV Nova has 11 pages of plug-ins, ranging in size from 1K annoyance patches to 12MB overhauls. 12MB is pretty substantial when the game itself is 70MB. The previous versions had -huge- plug-ins that converted all the ships and missions to Star Wars and Star Trek. I'm sure these are in the works. Seriously worth checking out.
Karnov was INSANELY difficult. I remember jumping really high and landing on bad guys that killed me about 12 seconds after the start of every game. Mind you, Metroid was out at the time--that was a little bit better. The only game harder that I played was that psycho Konami Rush'n Attack. I made it to Level 2 about 4 out of a million times and the dog+sniper combo always erased me. Maybe that Donkey Kong guy should take a crack at that bad boy.
Don't say 10 ~pounds~, say JUST A HINT OVER 4.5 kg.
Thanks for the smarmy remark you AC shithead. I ~read~ the paper yesterday, so going to the nytimes.com site at all was the extra minute I invested.
He thinks not only DID it come true, it's worse than Orwell thought! His best thought: "It is becoming unprecedentedly difficult for anyone, anyone at all, to keep a secret."
Check it out--it's worth creating the bogus ID for.
Side topic: those 10ths of cents? They are called "mills". That's some good nerd trivia there.
Anyone want to play UT1999 GotY GOLD edition with me until then?