Actually, Giger did more work for the first one where one of the early concepts (from the Criterion laser disc edition) was to show that the Alien was actually a progressive species with a written language and culture. It would be great to show that side of the Alien. Instead of having these dumb feral beasts we could see a society of them. There would be a million possibilities with that story line and one that was obviously considered at one point.
Come on now, this is Slashdot.... where posts about "I haven't paid for Windows ever even tho it's on 12 of my b0xen" normally gets modded up.
If this is true that a simple phone call can get a few fins back in some users wallet and the key still works you know it's going to be taken advantage of. "The rest of us" isn't as big of a number as you might think it is.
Like many other things that we've done as a nation over the last few decades, we laid our best hopes on something that was far too easy to create artificial value in.
And watch, it's going to happen again. With the Dow on the upswing we're going to see people dumping their interests into the hazard yet again but it is nothing more than a bubble based on employee cuts and assets sold for these businesses to stay afloat. The fat they gained in the last quarter will quickly be squandered if people buy into the idea that the economy is on the up and up.
We already have dwarf galaxies, so it's size doesn't matter. I've never heard of a galaxy class based on color. Is it the star creation rate? Does this have a morphology that is prior unknown? The article didn't seem to clear on this.
Why do we need cursive writing to begin with? While I think that there should be some attention paid to penmanship I don't see the need to write in two fashions anymore than I see a need to learn two systems of measurement.
Maybe one of the reasons American children are falling behind is because the curriculum is filed with crap that is outdated or never needed to exist in the first place.
We'd be best off to get rid of cursive writing and the Imperial measurement system from society and save ourselves the trouble. I'm sure there is more nostalgic and idiotic fat that can be cut from the studies of children. Especially since these two wastes of time are taught in a period of the child's development that bears a ton more fruit per hour invested than it does 8-10 years later when we're teaching high science and math.
I know I dropped cursive writing from my skill set the moment I was no longer penalized for not using it.
Because we want to get people to these destinations. The goal isn't for probes to inhabit these bodies, it's for humans to. If you take that away we've pretty much already accomplished these missions.
Not to say that robots can't help in the near future, but it's not the reason we're doing it.
That's exactly what I'm talking about. Back in my day D&D was about being a goof on some little random adventure. Today everyone wants it to be Lord of the Rings on steroids. Uber-epic is the word of today.
My nephew, who has hardly ever played D&D spits on the idea of being a level 5 fighter and go beat some orcs up in a dungeon for the local lord and get paid 50 gold for the group to do it. God forbid it doesn't involve prestige classes, high magic and army vs army style combat.
Seeings as where 75% of all D&D players out there buy into the "You're a level 1 potato farmer, A mighty wizard has chosen you and your friends to slay a giant and dragon army that has decimated three kingdoms" kind of adventures, I think the movie was pretty accurate.
Seriously, the D&D player base has been a wreck for about two decades now. The D&D film may not have been high art but neither is D&D.
this is typical insane engineering- if this succeeds then a mechanic would need to be an expert in light theory and frickin laser beams to work on your car.
Only as much as they need to be an expert in fluid dynamics to change your oil.
this is not the way to make cars more efficient- spark plugs work great and im sure these lasers cant give any more power - the spark plug ignites the gas already, and it BURNS- how much more combustion could you get?
It is a good question as to how this would work any better but if you've ever spent any time under the hood you know it doesn't take much in the way of fouling or plug wire degradation to change fuel efficiency. If this system can avoid those kinds of issues it would make certain aspects of tune ups obsolete and would also increase fuel efficiency over a period when traditional plugs and wires would degrade but not to the point of seemingly needing replaced.
I would be wondering if this were a trend in software in general? I recall recently people mentioning that Euro versions of Mathmatica were also at a higher price than the US versions. Is this the norm in the EU?
Thanks for the vote of confidence. I just found that the "jubilation" that was breaking out at Twitter was kind of funny. Actually, a lot of it turned out to be some weird eBay bot. How they think I'd go from looking for a news article on YouTube and IE to wanting to buy some facial cream in the same moment is beyond me.
apple has recently made a rare transition from the first to second category, and their incentives and policies have changed accordingly.
You have got to be shitting me! Apple hasn't played nice as far as open standards and interoperability since the second coming of Jobs. And they rarely did before that! This isn't recent. It's so ingrained and heavy handed I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't chiseled into the cornerstone of their corporate headquarters.
Please don't try to defend Apple in this case. They've defined lock-in to the point that Microsoft looks like the public library in comparison, especially where it concerns their non-desktop offerings.
No, I have a very firm understanding of what the game is and how it works but I was pointing out that the eye candy of the UI is mostly a waste of resources instead of a valuable tool to game play. Perhaps more advanced pilots in PvP actually use the flight sim factor a bit but for the most part I can run 95% of the games offerings off the HUD with no loss. That was my only point.
This Twitter search reflects the jubilation breaking out all over the Net
Yeah, there's a virtual kegger going on over at Twitter about this. Is that going to be our new gauge of how things are going on in the computing world? Has netcraft confirmed it?
Being able to assign a guild quest to somebody so they will go gather some resources fore the bank even when I'm not online would be nice. A lot of players will only do this when I'm online cajoling them in to it.
So basically you want bots to do the dirty work that your guildies are unwilling to do? Seriously, how do you expect this to work in a real game environment?
I guess this is a reason I was never into the who guild scene. I belonged to a very loose organization in EQ2 that was really nothing but a gang of friends who helped each other from time to time. I know that if I were being outright forced to do a task when the guild leader couldn't be bothered to show up I wouldn't have a long career with that guild.
And I think that's part of the game too. It's an aspect of what some consider fun and what some don't. Some people like to manage and pull the strings. Some people don't mind helping a friend but don't want to be beholden to showing up at a certain time of day to do the bidding of others. Some people like just going out there and beating something up with no strings attached. Maybe you're going for the wrong form of play for the kind of person you are? If leading a group of unwilling people to do undesirable work doesn't get your blood pumping my guess is that being the leader of a guild and expecting people to do real work with little payback won't be all that rewarding. Maybe you need to either leave the guild concept behind you or find a guild that's more an association of friends who like to joke around and be goofs above being the first group to raid some new zone the second an expansion goes live.
Guild mastering should be fun. It's a game. Once games stop being fun it's time to let it go for at least a little while.
You need a wide screen monitor with a resolution of 1650x1080 to really not feel cramped in EVE.
In some ways you're right but in other ways it really doesn't matter.
The vast majority of what happens on "the screen" in EVE is simply eye candy.
The concept of actually flying your ship over selecting targets on the objects list and being auto piloted there is pointless. The flight sim aspect of EVE is a waste. Sadly this is what made the space sim genre great in the first place (I recall nearly pissing myself the first time playing Elite on the C=64)
Beyond that all you have is a bunch of text boxes. Seriously, what do you miss in the game outside of those boxes? The game is beautiful in terms of graphics but I've never seen a game with a GUI that uses it less. Once you step outside of the HUD data there's nothing to do but look around and admire some graphical artists work.
And that's the suck thing about the patch that was done in the last month or two. I used to play on an old tablet but their new client made it unplayable because the graphics chipset didn't support pixel shader 2.0 (I believe it was 2.0). But why not? Why not leave a stripped down HUD version of the game? I know that maintaining multiple clients has to be a pain for them but come on... I can play the game just as well from nothing but the HUD data and not miss out on anything as far as the true core of the game play.
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Somewhere along the way, we stopped printing things out quite so much
So all those Staples ads about toner and ink are meant for that small niche of people who still own a printer? Please.
This is nothing more than a misled anti-Microsoft troll. How did this ever make it to the front page?
Mod parent up: Insightful
(Sorry, I had to do it)
Actually, Giger did more work for the first one where one of the early concepts (from the Criterion laser disc edition) was to show that the Alien was actually a progressive species with a written language and culture. It would be great to show that side of the Alien. Instead of having these dumb feral beasts we could see a society of them. There would be a million possibilities with that story line and one that was obviously considered at one point.
Give me one good reason that software, any software, should be licensed differently on a VM than on a physical machine.
Come on now, this is Slashdot.... where posts about "I haven't paid for Windows ever even tho it's on 12 of my b0xen" normally gets modded up.
If this is true that a simple phone call can get a few fins back in some users wallet and the key still works you know it's going to be taken advantage of. "The rest of us" isn't as big of a number as you might think it is.
Like many other things that we've done as a nation over the last few decades, we laid our best hopes on something that was far too easy to create artificial value in.
And watch, it's going to happen again. With the Dow on the upswing we're going to see people dumping their interests into the hazard yet again but it is nothing more than a bubble based on employee cuts and assets sold for these businesses to stay afloat. The fat they gained in the last quarter will quickly be squandered if people buy into the idea that the economy is on the up and up.
We already have dwarf galaxies, so it's size doesn't matter. I've never heard of a galaxy class based on color. Is it the star creation rate? Does this have a morphology that is prior unknown? The article didn't seem to clear on this.
Oops, you just defined the source to 90% of Hollywood's revenue.
Fixed that for you.
I will stick my karmic neck out and humor you.
Thanks.
Why do we need cursive writing to begin with? While I think that there should be some attention paid to penmanship I don't see the need to write in two fashions anymore than I see a need to learn two systems of measurement.
Maybe one of the reasons American children are falling behind is because the curriculum is filed with crap that is outdated or never needed to exist in the first place.
We'd be best off to get rid of cursive writing and the Imperial measurement system from society and save ourselves the trouble. I'm sure there is more nostalgic and idiotic fat that can be cut from the studies of children. Especially since these two wastes of time are taught in a period of the child's development that bears a ton more fruit per hour invested than it does 8-10 years later when we're teaching high science and math.
I know I dropped cursive writing from my skill set the moment I was no longer penalized for not using it.
I would agree that the moon should be first. But to claim that it's the same is foolish.
As I said, robots can help in the near future. Why make me repeat something that I've already said?
Because we want to get people to these destinations. The goal isn't for probes to inhabit these bodies, it's for humans to. If you take that away we've pretty much already accomplished these missions.
Not to say that robots can't help in the near future, but it's not the reason we're doing it.
That's exactly what I'm talking about. Back in my day D&D was about being a goof on some little random adventure. Today everyone wants it to be Lord of the Rings on steroids. Uber-epic is the word of today.
My nephew, who has hardly ever played D&D spits on the idea of being a level 5 fighter and go beat some orcs up in a dungeon for the local lord and get paid 50 gold for the group to do it. God forbid it doesn't involve prestige classes, high magic and army vs army style combat.
Throwing a d20 isn't what it use to be.
Seeings as where 75% of all D&D players out there buy into the "You're a level 1 potato farmer, A mighty wizard has chosen you and your friends to slay a giant and dragon army that has decimated three kingdoms" kind of adventures, I think the movie was pretty accurate.
Seriously, the D&D player base has been a wreck for about two decades now. The D&D film may not have been high art but neither is D&D.
this is typical insane engineering- if this succeeds then a mechanic would need to be an expert in light theory and frickin laser beams to work on your car.
Only as much as they need to be an expert in fluid dynamics to change your oil.
this is not the way to make cars more efficient- spark plugs work great and im sure these lasers cant give any more power - the spark plug ignites the gas already, and it BURNS- how much more combustion could you get?
It is a good question as to how this would work any better but if you've ever spent any time under the hood you know it doesn't take much in the way of fouling or plug wire degradation to change fuel efficiency. If this system can avoid those kinds of issues it would make certain aspects of tune ups obsolete and would also increase fuel efficiency over a period when traditional plugs and wires would degrade but not to the point of seemingly needing replaced.
This will probably arrive as a viable and reliable technology right about the same time the internal combustion engine is on it's way out.
Don't think fax machine, think FD Trinitron.
buyers could probably get more storage by purchasing two of the cheap ultraportables.
They could definitely get more buying an external drive from Best Buy with 3-4 times the storage at 1/10th the cost.
There is no question here as to how cheap storage is.
I would be wondering if this were a trend in software in general? I recall recently people mentioning that Euro versions of Mathmatica were also at a higher price than the US versions. Is this the norm in the EU?
Thanks for the vote of confidence. I just found that the "jubilation" that was breaking out at Twitter was kind of funny. Actually, a lot of it turned out to be some weird eBay bot. How they think I'd go from looking for a news article on YouTube and IE to wanting to buy some facial cream in the same moment is beyond me.
apple has recently made a rare transition from the first to second category, and their incentives and policies have changed accordingly.
You have got to be shitting me! Apple hasn't played nice as far as open standards and interoperability since the second coming of Jobs. And they rarely did before that! This isn't recent. It's so ingrained and heavy handed I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't chiseled into the cornerstone of their corporate headquarters.
Please don't try to defend Apple in this case. They've defined lock-in to the point that Microsoft looks like the public library in comparison, especially where it concerns their non-desktop offerings.
No, I have a very firm understanding of what the game is and how it works but I was pointing out that the eye candy of the UI is mostly a waste of resources instead of a valuable tool to game play. Perhaps more advanced pilots in PvP actually use the flight sim factor a bit but for the most part I can run 95% of the games offerings off the HUD with no loss. That was my only point.
This Twitter search reflects the jubilation breaking out all over the Net
Yeah, there's a virtual kegger going on over at Twitter about this. Is that going to be our new gauge of how things are going on in the computing world? Has netcraft confirmed it?
Being able to assign a guild quest to somebody so they will go gather some resources fore the bank even when I'm not online would be nice. A lot of players will only do this when I'm online cajoling them in to it.
So basically you want bots to do the dirty work that your guildies are unwilling to do? Seriously, how do you expect this to work in a real game environment?
I guess this is a reason I was never into the who guild scene. I belonged to a very loose organization in EQ2 that was really nothing but a gang of friends who helped each other from time to time. I know that if I were being outright forced to do a task when the guild leader couldn't be bothered to show up I wouldn't have a long career with that guild.
And I think that's part of the game too. It's an aspect of what some consider fun and what some don't. Some people like to manage and pull the strings. Some people don't mind helping a friend but don't want to be beholden to showing up at a certain time of day to do the bidding of others. Some people like just going out there and beating something up with no strings attached. Maybe you're going for the wrong form of play for the kind of person you are? If leading a group of unwilling people to do undesirable work doesn't get your blood pumping my guess is that being the leader of a guild and expecting people to do real work with little payback won't be all that rewarding. Maybe you need to either leave the guild concept behind you or find a guild that's more an association of friends who like to joke around and be goofs above being the first group to raid some new zone the second an expansion goes live.
Guild mastering should be fun. It's a game. Once games stop being fun it's time to let it go for at least a little while.
You need a wide screen monitor with a resolution of 1650x1080 to really not feel cramped in EVE.
In some ways you're right but in other ways it really doesn't matter.
The vast majority of what happens on "the screen" in EVE is simply eye candy.
The concept of actually flying your ship over selecting targets on the objects list and being auto piloted there is pointless. The flight sim aspect of EVE is a waste. Sadly this is what made the space sim genre great in the first place (I recall nearly pissing myself the first time playing Elite on the C=64)
Beyond that all you have is a bunch of text boxes. Seriously, what do you miss in the game outside of those boxes? The game is beautiful in terms of graphics but I've never seen a game with a GUI that uses it less. Once you step outside of the HUD data there's nothing to do but look around and admire some graphical artists work.
And that's the suck thing about the patch that was done in the last month or two. I used to play on an old tablet but their new client made it unplayable because the graphics chipset didn't support pixel shader 2.0 (I believe it was 2.0). But why not? Why not leave a stripped down HUD version of the game? I know that maintaining multiple clients has to be a pain for them but come on... I can play the game just as well from nothing but the HUD data and not miss out on anything as far as the true core of the game play.