Tribes 2 is a game that is VERY different from most other 3D shooting games - it's almost closer to football than Quake once you've learned to play it right. Teamwork is everything, and it's almost unsuitable for playing without a clan membership.
Yeah, the teamwork is very important. It sucks when you get in a public game with a bunch of people who just can't get their act together. On the other hand it also sucks when you get in a clan that can't get its act together.
I recall the same experience with the Apple ][ reference manual. The first ones were essentially all technical information. By the time the later Apple ][e systems came out (IIRC) they were sanitized to remove all the scary "how it really works" stuff.
Mark Rasch, a computer and Internet policy lawyer in Bethesda, Maryland says regarding Microsoft "They're a huge, deep pocket." and "So Microsoft is target No. 1 for this potential litigation."
About what you'd expect a lawyer to say. No point in going after someone with empty pocketses.
Air Force Chief Information Officer John Gilligan says "I'm spending more money patching and fixing than we did to buy... I can't afford to do this anymore."
If software was tested until there were absolutely zero defects in it you A) be waiting a long time to get it and B) you'd probably faint dead away when you saw the price tag. Maybe writing your own software and debugging and testing it would be less expensive and more rewarding. Then again maybe not.
Sure, such craft could be used as computer controlled drones but the real benefit is going to be when you have squadrons of these piloted by top-gun pilots sitting safely away from the action.
If you were a fighter pilot would you care to engage in a dogfight with a remotely piloted aircraft that could pull more G's than you could? That could pull off manouveres that would literally break a pilot's neck? Or that could simply be made to explode like a SAM if you got too close it?
Would you like knowing that even if you shoot one out of the air the remote pilot is simply going to say "Dammit! He got me! Lets see if he can do it again." and then he is going to select and take over control of another one of a trio of inbound RPVs under computer control heading to your location and use it to try to kill you again?
I don't think any fighter pilot would like to face such remotely piloted craft. Chances of survival against them would be slim. Especially combined with new missle technologies that allow missles to be fired at targets behind and alongside of aircraft.
Actually a few things in math should be drilled into students by rote. That way they will know them without having to even think about them. The multiplication table is one such thing. Also the differences between all numbers from 0 to 100 (so I can get my change quickly in case the cash register is broken.)
If you don't remember a formula there is little chance of applying it is there? At least not until you have looked it up.
Kind of ironic that they don't have a damn bit of my information other than a login name and a password. The rest of it is totally bogus garbage. Anyone who buys it is getting a pig in a poke.
Back when the Colt still had a scope on it I was able to make repeated headshots if I had the luxury of enough distance and the time to take aim. Otherwise they got shot wherever the pray-and-spray tactic dictated.
One way is if you kill a teammate, you insta-die at the start of the next round.
Been a while since I played any CS but I think that is pretty much standard. I remember there was a "forgive tk" that got added in at some point so if someone accidentally killed you, you could let it slide.
Typical situation on a shooter game when you have a TK on your team making your life hell: You start a vote but cannot get enough votes to kick the TKing a-hole off.
Why? Because in a lot of cases the other team doesn't give a damn about it. Especially if they've been getting a steady butt-kicking. Someone on your team who disrupts play and lets them all of a sudden start winning doesn't seem so bad to them.
About the only solution I've seen to this is to repeatedly announce "Since you didn't help up vote the jerk out you're gonna get a taste of it." and then switch to their team and proceed to methodically teamkill them until they get the point. It's harsh, but it works a lot of the time.
My Couch... Is made out of leather, wood, and cotton... Am I an enviro-God?
Clearly not.
Your couch is the result of the death of innocent bovines, slaughter of defenseless trees, and the poisoning of countless boll weevils.
Now excuse me while I go ruminate on your total lack of environmental consciousness while I eat my mesquite-smoked, charcoal-grilled, rare, ground-chuck hamburger and wipe my greasy fingers on my cotton T-shirt.
Re:Homer Simpsons puts it best:
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I guess you don't use solar power then.
Down in Austin (I think, but am not certain, I saw it on the news about a week ago) there is a business that sells solar power equipment; they also use solar power for their shop. They produce more power than they use, which leaves the power company owing them money. Apparently the power company replaced the power meter a couple of times thinking there had to be something wrong with it.
While the truth may be much stranger than you think, in most cases your thinking is much stranger than the truth.
Wow, a plastic book.
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Finally someone makes a book it is safe to read in the bathtub.
I wonder how a plastic book would stack up against a paper book for longevity?
And just to keep on topic here, I think that looking at the way we manufacture things with an eye to increasing the potential for recycleability is a good thing. Landfill space is finite and we definitely don't want to wind up living in a sea of disposable diapers, plastic 6-pack holders, discarded hot-dogs and stale twinkies.
I recall a sherrif's dept. sending out letters to people with outstanding warrants exclaiming that they had one a prize and had to go to a certain address to claim it. Needless to say, the cops had a field day arresting all sorts of people, who were actually dumb enough to buy the ploy.
This has been done a lot. "You have won a [car, truck, boat, trip to Vegas]." It seems criminal elements of society always like getting something for nothing. Go figure.
Yeah, especially since many places don't see the sense in an employee staying home when they aren't so sick they're about to collapse.
By the time you know you really do have the flu and not just a cold you've left enough germs around to infect a lot of your co-workers.
They get an extra day or two out of one of their workers and then lose 1+ week times N employees who were unfortunate enough to be exposed to someone who should have stayed home in the first place.
No shit.
Whenever I had to use the system belonging to the owner of the company I worked for I always had to wipe the nasty, greasy, mouse off.
You're supposed to wipe your hands on a napkin after eating. Failing that use your pants or shirt.
Jar-Jar will get a cameo appearance as a stew-bum in the Mos-Eisly cantina.
Maybe Lucas can have him lick someone's boots clean for a drink, like Alan Dean Foster had some miserable alien do in Splinter of the Mind's Eye.
There wasn't a line when I went Friday morning. Spur of the moment I decided to go. Drove over. Got a ticket. Got Coke, popcorn (no butter), Sour Patch Kids candy.
Went in theater. Packed. Sat in the front row.
Definitely digital. I could see the freaking pixels since I was so close. I'll see it again in a couple of weeks when I can sit further back.
The only line I saw was people waiting to get into the next showing when I exited the theater.
I guess not having to rewind the movie is another benefit of the digital format.
As Steve Matrin liked to say....
Weeeelllll Excuuuuuuuuusssssseeeeee Meeeeeeeeeee!!!!!
If they weren't standing around drinking cappucino's and frappucino's and walking around obliviousl, their thoughts preoccupied with whatever little sim pedestrians are preoccupied with then they might notice the big, shiny, blood-spattered, death-mobiles with open headers driven by homicidal maniacs more than 2 seconds before they get splattered all over the sidewalk.
And anyway, the reward for killing pedestrians is nowhere near what you get for a Cunning Stunt Bonus.
First antiseptics...
Then antibiotics...
Now genetic resequencing...
The bacteria, virii, and microbial life forms are mad as hell and aren't going to take it anymore.
This is just their way of saying "Pick on someone your own size you digusting, smelly, featherless, bipedal bags of mostly water."
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Tribes 2 is a game that is VERY different from most other 3D shooting games - it's almost closer to football than Quake once you've learned to play it right. Teamwork is everything, and it's almost unsuitable for playing without a clan membership.
Yeah, the teamwork is very important. It sucks when you get in a public game with a bunch of people who just can't get their act together. On the other hand it also sucks when you get in a clan that can't get its act together.
I recall the same experience with the Apple ][ reference manual. The first ones were essentially all technical information. By the time the later Apple ][e systems came out (IIRC) they were sanitized to remove all the scary "how it really works" stuff.
By the time the reader gets acquainted with the devices made by Altair, he gets thrown back in time to get acquainted with the Osborne, and so on.
In what timeline did the Osborne come out before the Altair?Certainly not this one.
About what you'd expect a lawyer to say. No point in going after someone with empty pocketses.
If software was tested until there were absolutely zero defects in it you A) be waiting a long time to get it and B) you'd probably faint dead away when you saw the price tag. Maybe writing your own software and debugging and testing it would be less expensive and more rewarding. Then again maybe not.
Think "remotely piloted fighter aircraft."
Sure, such craft could be used as computer controlled drones but the real benefit is going to be when you have squadrons of these piloted by top-gun pilots sitting safely away from the action.
If you were a fighter pilot would you care to engage in a dogfight with a remotely piloted aircraft that could pull more G's than you could? That could pull off manouveres that would literally break a pilot's neck? Or that could simply be made to explode like a SAM if you got too close it?
Would you like knowing that even if you shoot one out of the air the remote pilot is simply going to say "Dammit! He got me! Lets see if he can do it again." and then he is going to select and take over control of another one of a trio of inbound RPVs under computer control heading to your location and use it to try to kill you again?
I don't think any fighter pilot would like to face such remotely piloted craft. Chances of survival against them would be slim. Especially combined with new missle technologies that allow missles to be fired at targets behind and alongside of aircraft.
Actually a few things in math should be drilled into students by rote. That way they will know them without having to even think about them. The multiplication table is one such thing. Also the differences between all numbers from 0 to 100 (so I can get my change quickly in case the cash register is broken.)
If you don't remember a formula there is little chance of applying it is there? At least not until you have looked it up.
Kind of ironic that they don't have a damn bit of my information other than a login name and a password. The rest of it is totally bogus garbage. Anyone who buys it is getting a pig in a poke.
Back when the Colt still had a scope on it I was able to make repeated headshots if I had the luxury of enough distance and the time to take aim. Otherwise they got shot wherever the pray-and-spray tactic dictated.
I used to to Tribes 2 a lot. Even ran a server for 6 months.
I got to be pretty good with MA discs. When I quit playing T2 to play MOHAA I'd find that my T2 skills had deteriorated a lot.
One way is if you kill a teammate, you insta-die at the start of the next round.
Been a while since I played any CS but I think that is pretty much standard. I remember there was a "forgive tk" that got added in at some point so if someone accidentally killed you, you could let it slide.
Typical situation on a shooter game when you have a TK on your team making your life hell: You start a vote but cannot get enough votes to kick the TKing a-hole off.
Why? Because in a lot of cases the other team doesn't give a damn about it. Especially if they've been getting a steady butt-kicking. Someone on your team who disrupts play and lets them all of a sudden start winning doesn't seem so bad to them.
About the only solution I've seen to this is to repeatedly announce "Since you didn't help up vote the jerk out you're gonna get a taste of it." and then switch to their team and proceed to methodically teamkill them until they get the point. It's harsh, but it works a lot of the time.
My Couch... Is made out of leather, wood, and cotton... Am I an enviro-God?
Clearly not.
Your couch is the result of the death of innocent bovines, slaughter of defenseless trees, and the poisoning of countless boll weevils.
Now excuse me while I go ruminate on your total lack of environmental consciousness while I eat my mesquite-smoked, charcoal-grilled, rare, ground-chuck hamburger and wipe my greasy fingers on my cotton T-shirt.
I guess you don't use solar power then.
Down in Austin (I think, but am not certain, I saw it on the news about a week ago) there is a business that sells solar power equipment; they also use solar power for their shop. They produce more power than they use, which leaves the power company owing them money. Apparently the power company replaced the power meter a couple of times thinking there had to be something wrong with it.
The truth is indeed much stranger than you think.
While the truth may be much stranger than you think, in most cases your thinking is much stranger than the truth.
Finally someone makes a book it is safe to read in the bathtub.
I wonder how a plastic book would stack up against a paper book for longevity?
And just to keep on topic here, I think that looking at the way we manufacture things with an eye to increasing the potential for recycleability is a good thing. Landfill space is finite and we definitely don't want to wind up living in a sea of disposable diapers, plastic 6-pack holders, discarded hot-dogs and stale twinkies.
I recall a sherrif's dept. sending out letters to people with outstanding warrants exclaiming that they had one a prize and had to go to a certain address to claim it. Needless to say, the cops had a field day arresting all sorts of people, who were actually dumb enough to buy the ploy.
This has been done a lot. "You have won a [car, truck, boat, trip to Vegas]." It seems criminal elements of society always like getting something for nothing. Go figure.
Yeah, especially since many places don't see the sense in an employee staying home when they aren't so sick they're about to collapse. By the time you know you really do have the flu and not just a cold you've left enough germs around to infect a lot of your co-workers. They get an extra day or two out of one of their workers and then lose 1+ week times N employees who were unfortunate enough to be exposed to someone who should have stayed home in the first place.
No shit. Whenever I had to use the system belonging to the owner of the company I worked for I always had to wipe the nasty, greasy, mouse off. You're supposed to wipe your hands on a napkin after eating. Failing that use your pants or shirt.
"Think twice before you throw that those computer parts in the garbage. Do you really know where it's going?"
Why yes, yes I do.
If I put it in the trash it goes to a dump.
If I take it to a recycle center it is more likely to be shipped to China.
Jar-Jar will get a cameo appearance as a stew-bum in the Mos-Eisly cantina. Maybe Lucas can have him lick someone's boots clean for a drink, like Alan Dean Foster had some miserable alien do in Splinter of the Mind's Eye.
This article is even more alarming than the one this entire thread is about.
Some rinky-dink, ignorant, slack-jawed yokel Judge thinks he and his city aren't bound by the Constitution of the United States?
Mister Fucktard Judge needs to stripped of his citizenship and locked in a pit with nothing to eat but his own feces.
There wasn't a line when I went Friday morning. Spur of the moment I decided to go. Drove over. Got a ticket. Got Coke, popcorn (no butter), Sour Patch Kids candy.
Went in theater. Packed. Sat in the front row.
Definitely digital. I could see the freaking pixels since I was so close. I'll see it again in a couple of weeks when I can sit further back.
The only line I saw was people waiting to get into the next showing when I exited the theater.
I guess not having to rewind the movie is another benefit of the digital format.
As Steve Matrin liked to say.... Weeeelllll Excuuuuuuuuusssssseeeeee Meeeeeeeeeee!!!!! If they weren't standing around drinking cappucino's and frappucino's and walking around obliviousl, their thoughts preoccupied with whatever little sim pedestrians are preoccupied with then they might notice the big, shiny, blood-spattered, death-mobiles with open headers driven by homicidal maniacs more than 2 seconds before they get splattered all over the sidewalk. And anyway, the reward for killing pedestrians is nowhere near what you get for a Cunning Stunt Bonus.
to not flip the Jerries off.
First antiseptics... Then antibiotics... Now genetic resequencing... The bacteria, virii, and microbial life forms are mad as hell and aren't going to take it anymore. This is just their way of saying "Pick on someone your own size you digusting, smelly, featherless, bipedal bags of mostly water."