In Ubuntu when you do "sudo apt-get install kernelnamehere" your new kernel is added as the default in grub, but every other kernel you've had on that system remains there as an option. It pushes windows down pretty far down the boot menu.:)
I'm not sure why debian doesn't do the same thing by default...
In EVE, farmers have to sell their minerals to other players who have put up buy orders. This means that no currency is being created in the transaction, unlike most games where farmers sell their loot/whatever to NPCs which generate money out of thin air.
He specifically states that he is only measuring subscription based games. If you count guildwars, you have to count Battlefield 2, and maybe CounterStrike-Source.
I think it was consentual and legal...as long as you don't consider prostitution to be illegal and believe that prostitutes aren't effectively coerced into prostitution because of other circumstances in their life.
In GTA:SA if you were with a prostitute, she just came into your car and it rocked back and forth (very similar to what happens in "The Sims 2" if you WooHoo in a car). Your health would be restored, and your cash would go down (or up if you'd completed all the "pimping" missions). The "hot coffee" mod did not change this. In GTA:SA there were several girlfriends you could have (5 or 6 IIRC, you could be dating all of them at the same time without repercussion too since they were in different parts of the "state"). Each gave you some gameplay bonus for dating them - some were pretty big like getting out of jail or hospital for free (and keeping all your weapons!). Once you started dating a girlfriend you'd go on dates to wherever she wanted (dinner, dancing, bar, whatever), and take her back to her place. If you went to a place that she liked (fast food = bad) you'd get a +5 to the relationship stat (starts at around 30). Once you got your relationship stat above a certain point (40-60 depending on who) after you drop her off at her house she'd ask if you wanted to "come in for some hot coffee". Without the mod installed the camera fixed on the house and you'd hear moans and so forth, time would ellapse, and your relationship stat would go up by another 5 (so 10 for the entire date). With the hot coffee mod installed this was actually a button mashing minigame where you could succeed or fail, if you failed it nullified the bonus from the successful date, if you succeeded you'd get the extra +5.
Now whether you want to complain about this gameplay mechanic or not, I don't particularly care, but at least complain about the right thing...
The only truely nice thing about PC gaming over Console gaming is Saving a game, on a console you are forced to find a save point before you can save and quit (and when you are gaming late at night wanting to go to bed this becomes a meaningless chore) where as on the PC you just hit ESC hit save and quit.
Depends on the game - a lot of console games allow you to save anywhere you want now a days. Also, not all PC games allow you to save everywhere, Far Cry (on release) is a good example.
Nope, I've never had to do that. I've only had to organize and strategize OVER ONE HUNDRED players in an all-out battle for control of an entire Continent! This was just one battle in the course of a single evening's play. The scale of battle in Planetside is simply so far and away greater what you would experience in any RPG, that trying to compare them as you are is nothing short of laughable.
You've obviously never played EVE, have you? I've been in 100 player vs 100 player fleet fights. We were fighting for control of multiple regions of starsystems - perhaps 100 starsystems in total. Newer players can, and do, kill players far older than them all the time - in fact, in general character age is never looked upon for sign of combat capability, its the ship they're in.
Ever looked at eve? The skill system makes it so that almost anyone can kill almost anyone else depending on what ships they're each flying and how its set up. Theres no sharding and I love the skill system so much I could never go back to a level grind...
BSG2005, their number 2 pick, certainly has more "soap opera" elements than DS9 had. And DS9 is of much much higher quality in writing and acting than Star Trek Voyager which is about 15 on the list... I don't like the list - some of the stuff on the list isn't even really scifi!
I'm curious - whats your opinion of eve? Its not sharded (14,200 people on the same server yesterday) and has player set prices on most everything. PvP also has real impact on other players and politics and etc.
Take a look at eve online. It doesn't rely on skill grinding to advance your character. PvP can have a major effect on other players - more so than a little bit of damage and a respawn. Its pretty nifty.
I do, however, find the disappearance of the Earth's magnetic field quite troubling. Given that it's pretty important to surviving solar radiation to begin with, and is merely a symptom of something even more mysterious happening in the core, it could be quite dangerous.
Its probably the precursor to a magnetic pole reversal in the next ~1000 years. Then again, it might happen tomorrow... human kind has never witnessed one (its relatively common in geological history though).
Theres a pretty good wikipedia article on it here.
If you have a backdoor - how long before somebody malicious has access? 30 minutes? If you can get into any box anywhere (because apparently everything will have to have this) then couldn't one little malicious script bring down everything connected to the internet?
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In Ubuntu when you do "sudo apt-get install kernelnamehere" your new kernel is added as the default in grub, but every other kernel you've had on that system remains there as an option. It pushes windows down pretty far down the boot menu. :)
I'm not sure why debian doesn't do the same thing by default...
Isn't 95% a very bad success rate to be using it as a replacement for MAC addresses? Or am I missing something?
Does cygwin count? I use it all the time under windows...
The big 3 make many of their cars/parts in Mexico now. Now hows that for irony?
So, what does your friend that is a "brillian IT technician" know about chemistry, physics and engineering?
In EVE, farmers have to sell their minerals to other players who have put up buy orders. This means that no currency is being created in the transaction, unlike most games where farmers sell their loot/whatever to NPCs which generate money out of thin air.
He specifically states that he is only measuring subscription based games. If you count guildwars, you have to count Battlefield 2, and maybe CounterStrike-Source.
Yes, but we need Advanced Spaceflight first - while I see spaceflight, I certainly don't see Organic Superlubricant...
Plasma shards would be cool though. Best part of course is that if we increase the shade too much, we can just melt the polar ice caps a bunch!
In GTA:SA if you were with a prostitute, she just came into your car and it rocked back and forth (very similar to what happens in "The Sims 2" if you WooHoo in a car). Your health would be restored, and your cash would go down (or up if you'd completed all the "pimping" missions). The "hot coffee" mod did not change this. In GTA:SA there were several girlfriends you could have (5 or 6 IIRC, you could be dating all of them at the same time without repercussion too since they were in different parts of the "state"). Each gave you some gameplay bonus for dating them - some were pretty big like getting out of jail or hospital for free (and keeping all your weapons!). Once you started dating a girlfriend you'd go on dates to wherever she wanted (dinner, dancing, bar, whatever), and take her back to her place. If you went to a place that she liked (fast food = bad) you'd get a +5 to the relationship stat (starts at around 30). Once you got your relationship stat above a certain point (40-60 depending on who) after you drop her off at her house she'd ask if you wanted to "come in for some hot coffee". Without the mod installed the camera fixed on the house and you'd hear moans and so forth, time would ellapse, and your relationship stat would go up by another 5 (so 10 for the entire date). With the hot coffee mod installed this was actually a button mashing minigame where you could succeed or fail, if you failed it nullified the bonus from the successful date, if you succeeded you'd get the extra +5.
Now whether you want to complain about this gameplay mechanic or not, I don't particularly care, but at least complain about the right thing...
Depends on the game - a lot of console games allow you to save anywhere you want now a days. Also, not all PC games allow you to save everywhere, Far Cry (on release) is a good example.
Uh, what about stepmania? Get an old box with a svideo, audio outs and some usb ports and a 20+ gb hard drive and you're good to go.
So how are they planning to block SMB and sneakernet? Thats the most common ways files are shared where I am...
Code base? They use source code to design processors?
He was probably thinking of Verilog, not knowing whatever method is used for designing big chips.
I doubt they weighed more than 40,000 Kilo-grams. :)
Nope, I've never had to do that. I've only had to organize and strategize OVER ONE HUNDRED players in an all-out battle for control of an entire Continent! This was just one battle in the course of a single evening's play. The scale of battle in Planetside is simply so far and away greater what you would experience in any RPG, that trying to compare them as you are is nothing short of laughable.
You've obviously never played EVE, have you? I've been in 100 player vs 100 player fleet fights. We were fighting for control of multiple regions of starsystems - perhaps 100 starsystems in total. Newer players can, and do, kill players far older than them all the time - in fact, in general character age is never looked upon for sign of combat capability, its the ship they're in.
Ever looked at eve? The skill system makes it so that almost anyone can kill almost anyone else depending on what ships they're each flying and how its set up. Theres no sharding and I love the skill system so much I could never go back to a level grind...
Its rather simple, in a single sentence: Religion explains why while science explains how.
BSG2005, their number 2 pick, certainly has more "soap opera" elements than DS9 had. And DS9 is of much much higher quality in writing and acting than Star Trek Voyager which is about 15 on the list... I don't like the list - some of the stuff on the list isn't even really scifi!
I'm curious - whats your opinion of eve? Its not sharded (14,200 people on the same server yesterday) and has player set prices on most everything. PvP also has real impact on other players and politics and etc.
Take a look at eve online. It doesn't rely on skill grinding to advance your character. PvP can have a major effect on other players - more so than a little bit of damage and a respawn. Its pretty nifty.
I do, however, find the disappearance of the Earth's magnetic field quite troubling. Given that it's pretty important to surviving solar radiation to begin with, and is merely a symptom of something even more mysterious happening in the core, it could be quite dangerous.
Its probably the precursor to a magnetic pole reversal in the next ~1000 years. Then again, it might happen tomorrow... human kind has never witnessed one (its relatively common in geological history though).
Theres a pretty good wikipedia article on it here.
I think that FedEx won't get away with this - the guy has Stanford law profs defending him pro bono.
If you have a backdoor - how long before somebody malicious has access? 30 minutes? If you can get into any box anywhere (because apparently everything will have to have this) then couldn't one little malicious script bring down everything connected to the internet?