It does initially feel like Spore, but when Giantbomb were talking/hanging out with a some of the developers (E3 Day 1 GiantBombcast, at around 30min in or so), they pushed the devs about what the hell you do besides exploring and they didn't go too far and promise too much. They did mention some ideas that haven't been completely fleshed out yet: combat - space and planet-level, exploring (sharing? ugh), resource mining, ship upgrading. I would personally like it if they created some giant ship-design tree that would possibly be based on what your planet(s) had. But as they mentioned, these either weren't showable, or were just ideas they had, so it's probably best to wait it out and see if they can find some good gameplay mechanics and game goals. Otherwise it'll be "201X's Spore". (although I personally didn't mind Spore at the smaller kens; it's just that I remember my last hours of Spore were playing a frustrating planetary micromanagement sim. )
hmm the only challenge I could see out of this was to figure out words that were used in one book but not in the others. While that's pretty easy for the Silmarillion and Hobbit, the individual LoTR books are harder.
Off the top of my head: Silmarillion: maiar Hobbit: Gloin FoTR: Goldberry RoTK: pyre (!)
hmm I can't get anything off the top of my head for TT. Tried Treebeard, Orthanc but oh well.
The main solaris server back in college was kind of like that. I had used 9 character PWs for most of college (I figured one more made it safer:P) , and it was only finally during senior year did I notice that that last character didn't matter. In fact, you could type in anything after the first 8 and it still worked (this led to me showing off that I could still log in after mashing the keyboard)
But yeah, I mean those were the wild wild west days where you telnet-ed in (ssh-ing came around later), ytalk wasn't blocked, and finger wasn't blocked either (hence many girls got creepy ytalk requests from the outside world).
Motorola Droid owner here. If I don't bring my charger to work, it will die at around 6-7 hours in, and that's with even nearly everything off (must be because I have nearly zero cell reception in my office). Annoying... I can't wait till my contract ends in a month or two so I can dump this slow, battery sucking thing asap. I expect these new multi core phones to at least run things faster, and hopefully save some power when they aren't running things.
It was the "6-8 weeks for delivery" that probably held mail order back (ask anyone who watched those infomercials from the 80's and they ALL said that). I mean, I remember my parents ordering games for me back in (gasp) '87-88 for our Atari ST. I believe they took about a month, and I was kinda confused when I got them (OIDS? Goldrunner? What were these games that I ordered?). That's probably why I eventually only had around 6-7 games for that system (and a whole lot of shareware), versus eventually getting around 25 on my Game Boy, and probably nearly the same number for my ol' Genesis.
Just imagine waiting that long nowadays. No kid would wait a month for anything. I know people now that complain about how long it takes to download and install games via Steam. Crazy.
Most Chinese Americans (not the relatively recent Taiwanese or Mandarin-speaking immigrants, but the ones originally from the Cantonese speaking Southern provinces) came to West Coast & Hawaii starting at around the gold rush, until the US passed this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act_(United_States) That range is about 120-150 years, which is about 5-7 generations.
It's actually at a point where the newest generations of these groups shouldn't even think about that gen number anymore, as it seems a little ridiculous. This is probably due to lack of intermingling, as it's unlikely for someone to say 'Well, I'm 1/4 7th generation Irish, 1/8th 7th generation Scottish, 3/8 10th generation Dutch, 1/16 American Indian, 1/128th English from the Mayflower..."
As a side note, those exclusionary policies were all nullified by: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1965 so that's why you see many Asians (including SE Asia and India) in 1st, 2nd and even 3rd generations now.
I remember having this new 'CD player' in my parents' brand new entertainment system way back in '85. It was this really heavy, flat, dense thing (it looked like a flatter, simpler version of the CDP-101); I loved it because those few CDs we did have sounded far better than all of those tapes we had... even though all it could display was the track digit and the time on the CD/track.
CD-text would have been good, but hey, expecting CDs to work in a 'computer-ish' manner (like reading files) wasn't happening till the mid 90's. I mean, I didn't have a cd-rom in a computer till '95 I think. Before that you looked at CDs as simply music items, like a tape.
Note that heavy CD player still works today; I think my parents still use it to play music for get-togethers and what not.
Who remembers the Matrix? I recall gasps in the theatre as the camera rotated around trinity in midair. That shit was tight. What about Avatar? Tons of people were impressed with the world of pandora and the 3D effects. Special effects can definitely impress, but only if you keep them moving forward!
That's the main truth; really, people are only interested in effects if it's pushing boundaries of some kind. Avatar was pushing the realistic 3D boundary (I still haven't seen any other non-animated 3D movie where the 3D is continuous like Avatar (they usually just create multiple planes on which they map different 2D onto them), Matrix pushed that bullet time rotoscoping, etc.
On a link off the end of the OP's story (http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/265869/have_modern_visual_effects_robbed_us_of_reality.html) the author mentioned things like the Bullit car chases and Butch Cassidy crashes were impressive because you knew someone was sticking their neck out to do those things. In a sense, it was their way of pushing boundaries, physical ones.
If it was an automated algorithm that ID'd trees, I'd say no, this could be useful in other id'ing applications (maybe rocks, maybe separating natural from artificial objects or vice versa, etc).
If it was 1000 poor interns/schoolkids paid to click on 80000 trees each, then ok, you win, this was a bad idea.
a PS3 already? I've been waiting for years for a good price drop (like to $200), but this news is not encouraging. I pretty much only like racing and RPGs so I'm not sure what I would play besides GT5 (maybe Yakuza, that was pretty fun on the PS2)
I don't want more Simcites, I just want a patch for Spore where you can assign a damn lieutenant or someone that can take care of your collections/simple alien attacks. I didn't want my dreams of exploring the center of the galaxy to be dashed simply because I didn't know how to hire someone.
I hate it when I have to write out a check and I have a capital Q or Z to write. In my haste I usually cheat and I scribble a curvy Q or Z then continue on. Maybe 10% of the time I stop and look at the internet. This would probably never happen if I had a landlord named Quinn or Zach.
If I like a show for knowledge content (say, Good Eats or some foreign language tutorial) then I could care less of what the quality is (unless I need to read something on the board). If I like the show for the visuals (scenery, sports, people, etc), then I need the best quality. Just think, Sunrise Earth would have been scoffed at if it was pitched under standard def. The world cup looked a lot better in HD. For youtube videos of the meme of the day, usually you just need to get the jist of what's happening. Good visuals are nice but overall not necessary.
It's fun in conversations to say something that can be interpreted as sarcasm or a earnest remark. Then, depending on the other person's reaction, change accordingly. That's a fun game, but sometimes I'm not sure what I meant at all.
Actually when I bought the Droid I assumed Google had some app that did that, but oh well. The amazon app is more funny than actually useful (last week I took a picture of a random ice cream sign, and it comes back with a weight loss book). In general it works pretty well with common objects from picturesque views.
Time to go download google goggles and test that google real time search thing too...
So no one noticed a 5000 x ~150 ~= 750 MW of usage? Over 10 years? Yikes. I would think at least some nerdy kids would have noticed at some point that there was SETI installed and asked some questions. Wouldn't people wonder why the computer lab was hot first thing in the morning.
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It does initially feel like Spore, but when Giantbomb were talking/hanging out with a some of the developers (E3 Day 1 GiantBombcast, at around 30min in or so), they pushed the devs about what the hell you do besides exploring and they didn't go too far and promise too much. They did mention some ideas that haven't been completely fleshed out yet: combat - space and planet-level, exploring (sharing? ugh), resource mining, ship upgrading. I would personally like it if they created some giant ship-design tree that would possibly be based on what your planet(s) had. But as they mentioned, these either weren't showable, or were just ideas they had, so it's probably best to wait it out and see if they can find some good gameplay mechanics and game goals. Otherwise it'll be "201X's Spore". (although I personally didn't mind Spore at the smaller kens; it's just that I remember my last hours of Spore were playing a frustrating planetary micromanagement sim. )
hmm the only challenge I could see out of this was to figure out words that were used in one book but not in the others. While that's pretty easy for the Silmarillion and Hobbit, the individual LoTR books are harder.
Off the top of my head:
Silmarillion: maiar
Hobbit: Gloin
FoTR: Goldberry
RoTK: pyre (!)
hmm I can't get anything off the top of my head for TT. Tried Treebeard, Orthanc but oh well.
The main solaris server back in college was kind of like that. I had used 9 character PWs for most of college (I figured one more made it safer :P) , and it was only finally during senior year did I notice that that last character didn't matter. In fact, you could type in anything after the first 8 and it still worked (this led to me showing off that I could still log in after mashing the keyboard)
But yeah, I mean those were the wild wild west days where you telnet-ed in (ssh-ing came around later), ytalk wasn't blocked, and finger wasn't blocked either (hence many girls got creepy ytalk requests from the outside world).
at 2:55 PST, when I go to
www.verizonwireless.com/galaxynexus
which is at the end of their press release, it simply redirects to a mostly-empty page.
Also, if you simply look for the Nexus in the phones, it's not there either...
Motorola Droid owner here. If I don't bring my charger to work, it will die at around 6-7 hours in, and that's with even nearly everything off (must be because I have nearly zero cell reception in my office). Annoying... I can't wait till my contract ends in a month or two so I can dump this slow, battery sucking thing asap. I expect these new multi core phones to at least run things faster, and hopefully save some power when they aren't running things.
It was the "6-8 weeks for delivery" that probably held mail order back (ask anyone who watched those infomercials from the 80's and they ALL said that). I mean, I remember my parents ordering games for me back in (gasp) '87-88 for our Atari ST. I believe they took about a month, and I was kinda confused when I got them (OIDS? Goldrunner? What were these games that I ordered?). That's probably why I eventually only had around 6-7 games for that system (and a whole lot of shareware), versus eventually getting around 25 on my Game Boy, and probably nearly the same number for my ol' Genesis.
Just imagine waiting that long nowadays. No kid would wait a month for anything. I know people now that complain about how long it takes to download and install games via Steam. Crazy.
That sounds about right.
Most Chinese Americans (not the relatively recent Taiwanese or Mandarin-speaking immigrants, but the ones originally from the Cantonese speaking Southern provinces) came to West Coast & Hawaii starting at around the gold rush, until the US passed this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act_(United_States)
That range is about 120-150 years, which is about 5-7 generations.
Most Japanese Americans in HI / CA are about 4th or 5th gen now (Also mostly from Southern prefectures...). They immigrated from the 1880's till this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen's_Agreement_of_1907
It's actually at a point where the newest generations of these groups shouldn't even think about that gen number anymore, as it seems a little ridiculous. This is probably due to lack of intermingling, as it's unlikely for someone to say 'Well, I'm 1/4 7th generation Irish, 1/8th 7th generation Scottish, 3/8 10th generation Dutch, 1/16 American Indian, 1/128th English from the Mayflower..."
As a side note, those exclusionary policies were all nullified by:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1965
so that's why you see many Asians (including SE Asia and India) in 1st, 2nd and even 3rd generations now.
It's like when you bring 10 pickaxes, find mostly dirt, then you realize you foolishly forgot to make even a couple of shovels.
I remember having this new 'CD player' in my parents' brand new entertainment system way back in '85. It was this really heavy, flat, dense thing (it looked like a flatter, simpler version of the CDP-101); I loved it because those few CDs we did have sounded far better than all of those tapes we had... even though all it could display was the track digit and the time on the CD/track.
CD-text would have been good, but hey, expecting CDs to work in a 'computer-ish' manner (like reading files) wasn't happening till the mid 90's. I mean, I didn't have a cd-rom in a computer till '95 I think. Before that you looked at CDs as simply music items, like a tape.
Note that heavy CD player still works today; I think my parents still use it to play music for get-togethers and what not.
I think of that old SNL commercial when I hear about this.
Who remembers the Matrix? I recall gasps in the theatre as the camera rotated around trinity in midair. That shit was tight. What about Avatar? Tons of people were impressed with the world of pandora and the 3D effects. Special effects can definitely impress, but only if you keep them moving forward!
That's the main truth; really, people are only interested in effects if it's pushing boundaries of some kind. Avatar was pushing the realistic 3D boundary (I still haven't seen any other non-animated 3D movie where the 3D is continuous like Avatar (they usually just create multiple planes on which they map different 2D onto them), Matrix pushed that bullet time rotoscoping, etc.
On a link off the end of the OP's story (http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/265869/have_modern_visual_effects_robbed_us_of_reality.html) the author mentioned things like the Bullit car chases and Butch Cassidy crashes were impressive because you knew someone was sticking their neck out to do those things. In a sense, it was their way of pushing boundaries, physical ones.
If it was an automated algorithm that ID'd trees, I'd say no, this could be useful in other id'ing applications (maybe rocks, maybe separating natural from artificial objects or vice versa, etc).
If it was 1000 poor interns/schoolkids paid to click on 80000 trees each, then ok, you win, this was a bad idea.
a PS3 already? I've been waiting for years for a good price drop (like to $200), but this news is not encouraging. I pretty much only like racing and RPGs so I'm not sure what I would play besides GT5 (maybe Yakuza, that was pretty fun on the PS2)
I don't want more Simcites, I just want a patch for Spore where you can assign a damn lieutenant or someone that can take care of your collections/simple alien attacks. I didn't want my dreams of exploring the center of the galaxy to be dashed simply because I didn't know how to hire someone.
http://goo.gl/maps/ZpTd
So it looks like if the sun is high up in the sky, from probably a S or SSE angle, you'd get some good ant burning action..
So how would they fix that? Put up one of those porous billboard/shade deals that Flamingo does?
suck you
will break my bones and words do too?
1) change your skin color.
It's not a daily quest; the longer you play, the lighter your skin becomes.
But he was giving you basic advice
I hate it when I have to write out a check and I have a capital Q or Z to write. In my haste I usually cheat and I scribble a curvy Q or Z then continue on. Maybe 10% of the time I stop and look at the internet. This would probably never happen if I had a landlord named Quinn or Zach.
If I like a show for knowledge content (say, Good Eats or some foreign language tutorial) then I could care less of what the quality is (unless I need to read something on the board).
If I like the show for the visuals (scenery, sports, people, etc), then I need the best quality. Just think, Sunrise Earth would have been scoffed at if it was pitched under standard def. The world cup looked a lot better in HD.
For youtube videos of the meme of the day, usually you just need to get the jist of what's happening. Good visuals are nice but overall not necessary.
Saw one!
It's fun in conversations to say something that can be interpreted as sarcasm or a earnest remark. Then, depending on the other person's reaction, change accordingly. That's a fun game, but sometimes I'm not sure what I meant at all.
Actually when I bought the Droid I assumed Google had some app that did that, but oh well. The amazon app is more funny than actually useful (last week I took a picture of a random ice cream sign, and it comes back with a weight loss book). In general it works pretty well with common objects from picturesque views.
Time to go download google goggles and test that google real time search thing too...
So no one noticed a 5000 x ~150 ~= 750 MW of usage? Over 10 years? Yikes. I would think at least some nerdy kids would have noticed at some point that there was SETI installed and asked some questions. Wouldn't people wonder why the computer lab was hot first thing in the morning.