I can only assume that griefing has crossed their minds and they have some mechanism of coping with it. I am extremely excited about this game but when I read the bit about events scaling...They're talking about how they've solved the problem of kill-stealing but is PvP interaction enabled in public areas? If ten people are "participating" in an event but two or three of them are attacking the other players, that's a problem. Heck, if ten people are participating and two or three are just hanging around doing nothing to make the event scale harder for the remaining players, that's a problem. I can only hope and trust that this possibility is obvious enough that there was some consideration of it in the development of these interactions.
At Pax East, they commented further on this. Kill-stealing is solved because everyone who participates gets full credit and full reward for doing so. They also said that if 10 people are fighting and 2-3 are standing there, the AI is smart enough not to count them in its scaling calculations (they can even plink the enemy a bit to "act" interested...but still not count because they aren't meeting the level necessary to be considered "active" participants). From what they said at the convention panel, it does truly appear like all of these things have been taken into consideration.
Given how rudimentary and just plain awful Kodak's interface was for their WiFi picture frames from 2 years ago when I bought a few for the family to share the same albums with each other across the nation, this story doesn't surprise me in the least.
I mean, who lets the frame go on the internet and builds in a timer for when to turn the frame off and on at night...but then when it comes back on it ONLY goes to its own internal memory and NOT the last gallery you were viewing via the WiFi?? Every morning you have to reconnect it to the internet galleries...and its ability to cache the pics from the internet is so poor that it will often claim it has an "error" and...REVERT BACK TO INTERNAL MEMORY! It's next to impossible to use it to view galleries on the internet...that can ONLY be on their website...AND that they're now CHARGING you to keep "active"!
So, no, it doesn't surprise me at all that they could screw even this basic security up.
You are spot on with the MMS and Tethering delays. That, alone, is enough reason to indict AT&T for asshatery more than any lack of upgrade pricing on 3G to 3GS.
You're squeezing us so hard because of your exclusivity, AT&T, but not keeping up with the hardware/software developer. You might just find more of us finding our way between your clenched fingers because of it. I've held off on jailbreaking my phone, but I could be using MMS and tethering TODAY if I wanted to, AT&T. Of course, then, I wouldn't have to be forced into being your customer, either. Consider your expediency in meeting the developer's abilities wisely.
I shall be twittering this with a sigh On someone's blogs and blogs hence: Two paths diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less googled by, And that has made all the difference.
No, unlike the neurons in your head, they do work...en masse and never to 100% of all strains of the virus for which they immunize.
Anyone who has gotten an MMR shot, including myself, are immunized against the Mumps virus with Genotype A (Jeryl Lynn strain). In 2006, Iowa recently had a big (relatively speaking) Mumps outbreak that was sourced to Genotype G. Even MMR-immunized people were susceptible (albeit to a much lesser likelihood than the non-immunized).
If not immunizing your kids were to get out of hand and less than 75-86% of the U.S. were immunized against genotype A, it would infect enough people that it could change into a new genotype and infect even the immunized by getting around the vaccine, the same way genotype G is already able to do.
Being vague in how you define a vaccine "working" isn't insightful and does nothing but shroud reality.
They refuse to put in the network within Boston because they're fighting with the state over getting a broad cable provider license. So unless you live in the burbs, you can't get FIOS in Boston and they (the city and Verizon) continue to let Comcast rape the rest of us with this sort of crap compression. It's enough to make a guy want to buy DirectTV...
First you have to find your target and you have to be able to make a lot of it to test against a lot of molecules initially. You also have to have a fast and easy way to see if anything sticks to it or not from all this screening. You also have to see if the target you picked isn't going to foul up the system in some crazy unexpected way.
Most drugs are stumbled upon by hitting some relatively similar molecule in a vast database of molecules the company has laying around from various sources.
If they don't stumble on it, they can't even begin. Then, if they do, they have to modify it to get it to work better than the simple one they stumbled upon. These modifications are mainly guesswork based on all of the possible modifications their chemists can think to try within certain limits. Then, if it does bind really well, it has to bind in the presence of everything else it would normally have to go through: other cellular components, plasma components, whole blood, liver enzymes, the works. If it sticks to any of those things or gets destroyed by the body's machinery before it can reach a concentration necessary to do whatever you want it to do from when you saw it work in the test tube...then you go back to square one or maybe two.
Then, if all of that is working, you can try some animals. If they don't die, you can try some humans. If they don't die, you can try to prove your case to the FDA. If they don't cry, you can finally sell your drug.
So, all of that has to be accomplished before you get a new chemical...and that's if you can find anything at the beginning in your vast library of options (which isn't as vast as you ever wish it would be). Otherwise, you wait for someone else to accomplish all of these things to at least somewhere around the mice...and then you buy them out. Of course, if you wait around for someone to get that far on a brand new target, you'll wait for quite a while, since most new, little guys won't have the library, manpower, capital, intelligence, or best target to even get as far as mice before going under...so there's always that problem too.
If you *could* cure AIDS, you'd do it just to bypass the patents of those just "selling pills over the course of a lifetime instead". You'd not only corner the market on AIDS drugs (and even if you cure one guy, he's probably just going to run out and get it again from a different hooker next time) but anything else you researched would instantly be lapped up by every other company looking for your next gem, even if it's all turds from there on out. In the industry, fame gets you as much future money as your product.
Al slipped on a ceramic tile floor in hurricane force winds outside of his hotel room (with a guy holding onto his leg as a sight gag and also harming his balance).
I don't think Apple had any reason or anything to do with it at all.
Man, would you PC-lovers stop with the hate already?
Yeah...it's really REALLY hard to get there and put the toy on the rocks. Hell, the guide probably even points to the cameras and talks about the science going on...geez.
Using cancer-cell-specific viruses isn't too new (although the NCI funding is). My lab has been working with this company for a little over a year on their attenuated adenovirus for cancer-specific targeting.
Add to the fact that everything but the ink in a Fisher Space Pen is metal and will not burn in a pure-oxygen environment...unlike a plastic ball-point pen.
The RIAA handed out about 300 subpoenas...there are about 200,000,000 users sharing on average at any given time...I'd say that their efforts have reduced the number of people sharing to probably around 199,999,843.
Only 157, you ask? Well, some people just don't learn their lesson the first time, I guess...
Is this a troll? When do you need 10 hours of life? How about crammed into the economy class of your favorite airline with Lizzie McGuire as the only movie on the flight...Or on any one of a number of long distance trips (train, bus, etc).
What about outside on a park bench enjoying some summer air while you do your work by wireless LAN?
Mixing pure hydrogen and oxygen? Storing pure oxygen in something small and lightweight enough to carry around without a wheelchair? If you can tether yourself for enough time to gain a full charge often enough to run off of a 2 hour battery (and I'm not talking about playing a few mp3s with the lid down but using the DVD-ROM full screen while powering your wireless card, USB optical mouse, and 15" LCD screen...) which would give you about 45 minutes to move about before your hibernate function kicks in...
You have to be joking. A 10 hour fuel cell that I can refill with my mixture of methanol/water from home (actually, I'd just steal from the lab) is a great idea...at only a fraction of the cost more than a replacement battery every few years!
From the article:
The blunt message was delivered by Laura Fryer, director of the Xbox Advanced Technology Group, to a meeting of game developers in London.
It's a Microsoft employee who said this stupid quote?! Finish her!
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I can only assume that griefing has crossed their minds and they have some mechanism of coping with it. I am extremely excited about this game but when I read the bit about events scaling...They're talking about how they've solved the problem of kill-stealing but is PvP interaction enabled in public areas? If ten people are "participating" in an event but two or three of them are attacking the other players, that's a problem. Heck, if ten people are participating and two or three are just hanging around doing nothing to make the event scale harder for the remaining players, that's a problem. I can only hope and trust that this possibility is obvious enough that there was some consideration of it in the development of these interactions.
At Pax East, they commented further on this. Kill-stealing is solved because everyone who participates gets full credit and full reward for doing so. They also said that if 10 people are fighting and 2-3 are standing there, the AI is smart enough not to count them in its scaling calculations (they can even plink the enemy a bit to "act" interested...but still not count because they aren't meeting the level necessary to be considered "active" participants). From what they said at the convention panel, it does truly appear like all of these things have been taken into consideration.
Given how rudimentary and just plain awful Kodak's interface was for their WiFi picture frames from 2 years ago when I bought a few for the family to share the same albums with each other across the nation, this story doesn't surprise me in the least.
I mean, who lets the frame go on the internet and builds in a timer for when to turn the frame off and on at night...but then when it comes back on it ONLY goes to its own internal memory and NOT the last gallery you were viewing via the WiFi?? Every morning you have to reconnect it to the internet galleries...and its ability to cache the pics from the internet is so poor that it will often claim it has an "error" and...REVERT BACK TO INTERNAL MEMORY! It's next to impossible to use it to view galleries on the internet...that can ONLY be on their website...AND that they're now CHARGING you to keep "active"!
So, no, it doesn't surprise me at all that they could screw even this basic security up.
Isn't something of "pure evil" going to ultimately not be evil?
Wouldn't that be the ultimate evil act against someone who is searching for an A.I. that is pure evil?
To give him something that is not evil at all in return for his efforts.
You are spot on with the MMS and Tethering delays. That, alone, is enough reason to indict AT&T for asshatery more than any lack of upgrade pricing on 3G to 3GS.
You're squeezing us so hard because of your exclusivity, AT&T, but not keeping up with the hardware/software developer. You might just find more of us finding our way between your clenched fingers because of it. I've held off on jailbreaking my phone, but I could be using MMS and tethering TODAY if I wanted to, AT&T. Of course, then, I wouldn't have to be forced into being your customer, either. Consider your expediency in meeting the developer's abilities wisely.
I shall be twittering this with a sigh
On someone's blogs and blogs hence:
Two paths diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less googled by,
And that has made all the difference.
--RFrostie1977
No, unlike the neurons in your head, they do work...en masse and never to 100% of all strains of the virus for which they immunize.
Anyone who has gotten an MMR shot, including myself, are immunized against the Mumps virus with Genotype A (Jeryl Lynn strain). In 2006, Iowa recently had a big (relatively speaking) Mumps outbreak that was sourced to Genotype G. Even MMR-immunized people were susceptible (albeit to a much lesser likelihood than the non-immunized).
If not immunizing your kids were to get out of hand and less than 75-86% of the U.S. were immunized against genotype A, it would infect enough people that it could change into a new genotype and infect even the immunized by getting around the vaccine, the same way genotype G is already able to do.
Being vague in how you define a vaccine "working" isn't insightful and does nothing but shroud reality.
They refuse to put in the network within Boston because they're fighting with the state over getting a broad cable provider license. So unless you live in the burbs, you can't get FIOS in Boston and they (the city and Verizon) continue to let Comcast rape the rest of us with this sort of crap compression. It's enough to make a guy want to buy DirectTV...
First you have to find your target and you have to be able to make a lot of it to test against a lot of molecules initially. You also have to have a fast and easy way to see if anything sticks to it or not from all this screening. You also have to see if the target you picked isn't going to foul up the system in some crazy unexpected way.
Most drugs are stumbled upon by hitting some relatively similar molecule in a vast database of molecules the company has laying around from various sources.
If they don't stumble on it, they can't even begin. Then, if they do, they have to modify it to get it to work better than the simple one they stumbled upon. These modifications are mainly guesswork based on all of the possible modifications their chemists can think to try within certain limits. Then, if it does bind really well, it has to bind in the presence of everything else it would normally have to go through: other cellular components, plasma components, whole blood, liver enzymes, the works. If it sticks to any of those things or gets destroyed by the body's machinery before it can reach a concentration necessary to do whatever you want it to do from when you saw it work in the test tube...then you go back to square one or maybe two.
Then, if all of that is working, you can try some animals. If they don't die, you can try some humans. If they don't die, you can try to prove your case to the FDA. If they don't cry, you can finally sell your drug.
So, all of that has to be accomplished before you get a new chemical...and that's if you can find anything at the beginning in your vast library of options (which isn't as vast as you ever wish it would be). Otherwise, you wait for someone else to accomplish all of these things to at least somewhere around the mice...and then you buy them out. Of course, if you wait around for someone to get that far on a brand new target, you'll wait for quite a while, since most new, little guys won't have the library, manpower, capital, intelligence, or best target to even get as far as mice before going under...so there's always that problem too.
If you *could* cure AIDS, you'd do it just to bypass the patents of those just "selling pills over the course of a lifetime instead". You'd not only corner the market on AIDS drugs (and even if you cure one guy, he's probably just going to run out and get it again from a different hooker next time) but anything else you researched would instantly be lapped up by every other company looking for your next gem, even if it's all turds from there on out. In the industry, fame gets you as much future money as your product.
Al slipped on a ceramic tile floor in hurricane force winds outside of his hotel room (with a guy holding onto his leg as a sight gag and also harming his balance).
I don't think Apple had any reason or anything to do with it at all.
Man, would you PC-lovers stop with the hate already?
http://www.whiteisland.co.nz/photos/photogallery/p hotos131103/craterfloorgroup.jpg
http://www.whiteisland.co.nz/
Yeah...it's really REALLY hard to get there and put the toy on the rocks. Hell, the guide probably even points to the cameras and talks about the science going on...geez.
In this country, even the clearest mildest foreign accent elicits reactions of "he doesn't even speek (sic) English."
Evidently, neither do you.
This larger than screen resolution vertical ad on the right side of the page really sucks.
More than the newest Matrix movie.
Using cancer-cell-specific viruses isn't too new (although the NCI funding is). My lab has been working with this company for a little over a year on their attenuated adenovirus for cancer-specific targeting.
Add to the fact that everything but the ink in a Fisher Space Pen is metal and will not burn in a pure-oxygen environment...unlike a plastic ball-point pen.
No, and neither does he.
(always a classic...)
If by "humvees" you mean sharks...then I approve.
You can try the original site too, but it's often down/off...
http://www.nedevett.com/gollum.swf
The RIAA handed out about 300 subpoenas...there are about 200,000,000 users sharing on average at any given time...I'd say that their efforts have reduced the number of people sharing to probably around 199,999,843.
Only 157, you ask? Well, some people just don't learn their lesson the first time, I guess...
Some guy named Kazaa.
or rediscover what people used to do before laptops: read
E-book or pdf?
Is this a troll? When do you need 10 hours of life? How about crammed into the economy class of your favorite airline with Lizzie McGuire as the only movie on the flight...Or on any one of a number of long distance trips (train, bus, etc).
What about outside on a park bench enjoying some summer air while you do your work by wireless LAN?
Mixing pure hydrogen and oxygen? Storing pure oxygen in something small and lightweight enough to carry around without a wheelchair? If you can tether yourself for enough time to gain a full charge often enough to run off of a 2 hour battery (and I'm not talking about playing a few mp3s with the lid down but using the DVD-ROM full screen while powering your wireless card, USB optical mouse, and 15" LCD screen...) which would give you about 45 minutes to move about before your hibernate function kicks in...
You have to be joking. A 10 hour fuel cell that I can refill with my mixture of methanol/water from home (actually, I'd just steal from the lab) is a great idea...at only a fraction of the cost more than a replacement battery every few years!
From the article:
The blunt message was delivered by Laura Fryer, director of the Xbox Advanced Technology Group, to a meeting of game developers in London.
It's a Microsoft employee who said this stupid quote?! Finish her!
All too easy...
If you built a software package that catches worms...why wouldn't you call it "Early Bird"?
Some art wouldn't exist without them...