At the glacial pace we're going now, by the time we're ready to actually launch folks to Mars, we should have a workable ion drive or plasma drive or Russian Reversal drive. Heck, we've known ion drives work for over a decade.
I like the idea of "trying" to raise bison... but apparently they require free ranging, according to a guy I know who's tried to raise them in the past. At least for the ones he had, they can't *stand* to be fenced in. They would climb over each other trying to scale a fence to get out. It was driving him bonkers so he got rid of them.
I wouldn't say you're missing anything. I've installed and run it three times over the past couple years, and while the team has made progress, it's still very much pre-pre-pre-alpha status. Get it if you're interesting in becoming a contributor... otherwise play Perfect World.
With all this talk about doing away with instancing, I'm surprised they didn't mention EVE Online. EVE has *ONE* world for all the players. Granted, it can make it mighty laggy for large engagements, but most of the time it's fine. Missions are "instanced" insofar as they are randomly created when you get them, but they can be discovered by other players using scanners, so you could conceivably have complete strangers swoop into your mission and rob your loot. Annoying, yes, but it adds tremendously to the feeling that you're part of a larger world.
President Bush (43) didn't start the war. He ended the war that Saddam Hussein started in 1990.
Nor did he start the Global War on Terror (the main front of which just happens to be in Iraq). Islamo-facists started that with their terrorist attacks on civilian targets the world over.
The guy next to me at work did this, albeit with modest 1 GB drives on a USB hub. He made a RAID-5 of 4 of them, and activated ReadyBoost on his Vista laptop, and Excel would load *instantly*. And I do mean instantly... as if by magic. It was the coolest thing I saw all day. He doesn't remember what exactly his benchmarks were, but only says that "it pwned."
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At the glacial pace we're going now, by the time we're ready to actually launch folks to Mars, we should have a workable ion drive or plasma drive or Russian Reversal drive. Heck, we've known ion drives work for over a decade.
I like the idea of "trying" to raise bison... but apparently they require free ranging, according to a guy I know who's tried to raise them in the past. At least for the ones he had, they can't *stand* to be fenced in. They would climb over each other trying to scale a fence to get out. It was driving him bonkers so he got rid of them.
Dark Vader: "The power of a black hole is insignificant compared to the power of The Force."
Mace Windu: "BULLSHIT, m*f*er!"
NoHTML? What you're looking for is lynx.
No, it's just the dramatic contrast in the wall behind them.
I wouldn't say you're missing anything. I've installed and run it three times over the past couple years, and while the team has made progress, it's still very much pre-pre-pre-alpha status. Get it if you're interesting in becoming a contributor... otherwise play Perfect World.
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I got a B.S. in computer science at Crazy Go Nuts University, and learned about security, including browsers. And let me tell y
Obama: "Today I have signed an executive order banning all space weapons."
China: "Yay! We fully support this."
*China blows up all U.S. satellites*
Who?
I just saw Encounter at Far Point and the Naked Now for the first time. They were quite painful, but also amusing in a schadenfreude sort of way.
Vegeta! What does the arXiv say about their number of articles?
It's fifty ten THOUSAAAAAND!!!
Being a 35yo bachelor, and no closer to being married than I was 10 years ago, this story is depressing.
I'm going to go spend time on weebls-stuff.com until my mood improves.
I'm not sure, but you need 1.27 of them to go forward in time.
That's easy!
Yabbit Wuh Wuss Fault!
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"A cat is no trade for integrity" is the funniest thing I've seen all day. Thanks, Disagree Mail! :)
With all this talk about doing away with instancing, I'm surprised they didn't mention EVE Online. EVE has *ONE* world for all the players. Granted, it can make it mighty laggy for large engagements, but most of the time it's fine. Missions are "instanced" insofar as they are randomly created when you get them, but they can be discovered by other players using scanners, so you could conceivably have complete strangers swoop into your mission and rob your loot. Annoying, yes, but it adds tremendously to the feeling that you're part of a larger world.
> Get off my lawn
Get off my pile of rocks.
> thanks to the war that W. started
President Bush (43) didn't start the war. He ended the war that Saddam Hussein started in 1990.
Nor did he start the Global War on Terror (the main front of which just happens to be in Iraq). Islamo-facists started that with their terrorist attacks on civilian targets the world over.
It's only delaying the inevitable...
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I play City of Heroes with my 63-year-old mom (who is a grandmother twice over). She's logged over 550 hours of playtime with one toon.
That said, I don't *think* she's a sociapath...
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I guess you could set up a Chinese water torture station.
The guy next to me at work did this, albeit with modest 1 GB drives on a USB hub. He made a RAID-5 of 4 of them, and activated ReadyBoost on his Vista laptop, and Excel would load *instantly*. And I do mean instantly... as if by magic. It was the coolest thing I saw all day. He doesn't remember what exactly his benchmarks were, but only says that "it pwned."