I'd expect the ads to be served up from dedicated servers (ie ads22.massiveincorporated.com) in both singleplayer/offline and multiplayer/online games.
i'd just do a hosts file block and add
127.0.0.1 ads22.massiveincorporated.com
to the hosts file (/windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts for me)
Barring some sort of crazy DRM enabling deal, it should prevent any of the content from loading. I'd be much happier just having a red X on the wall then Who will be the next American Idol?
but you also get to dump a publisher like Sierra taking their cut, you get to cut the cost of the box's, manuals, CD's, the cost of transportation and physical distribution, also you cut out bestbuy and their markup. Plus you never produce a single copy more than is sold, no overstock.
Seems to me you just need to hire some programmers, buy a few servers, and rent a fat data pipe.
They should save alot of money by skipping publishing and packaging. Will the savings be passed on to us? Also there will probably be some gray area in 'owning' the copy. If it still costs $50 i'd like to have an actual copy that I can back up, or sell later, etc. All the same questions from the HL2 release.
If it runs off the car's DC system, there wouldn't be any oscillating at all would there? Also LEDs are diodes and by definition don't oscillate or alternate current.
Its not lighting up with the juice that is in the air. it just detects the "juice" in the air while the watch battery both powers the detection IC and lights up the LED.
From the Stretched Simile, Forced Metaphor, Overbaked Hyperbole and Lame Joke School of Journalism
"glacially slow processor and anemic memory"
"designed by orangutans without opposable thumbs"
"longer than it took the Minnow's crew to escape Gilligan's Island"
"it's slower than a 330-pound defensive tackle with two bad knees on a muddy field"
"like watching the neighbor's TV with a periscope"
"look worse than an ancient Philco"
"control more twitchy than Jennifer Tilly in Seed of Chucky"
"this twisted offspring of a Norelco shaver"
"you'd be GigaWrong. Buy this one and you'll end up GigaSad"
"doesn't matter a NanoBit."
I think all this would do is invite more of the willfully ignorant and uninformed to 'express their opinion' (ie vote for whoever has cooler commercials or has better looking daughters)
For the most part those who actually learn about the issues to make sound decisions (both dems and reps) are already going to vote. Otherwise you're missing the idea of an election and skewing the results with garbage data and thoughtless votes.
I'd rather base an election on 100 well informed voters than a million mouth-breathers who'd want to elect Dale Ernhardt Jr anyways.
I work all day in the server room at about 60F and can barely get anything done. All this time I thought I was just born lazy, but its actually the working environment.
I saw some spinal injury expert interview on the news a while ago when the stem cell controversy was bigger and christopher reeves had that commercial where special effects made him stand up. The expert said that when the spinal cord is severed, after a certain period of time the spinal cord below the cut turns to mush cause it doesn't get used. basically saying that people with old injuries were screwed and the best medicine could hope for is treating people right after the injury. So while these rats have only a.1 mm gap to regenerate, christopher reeve could very well have 3 feet of spinal mush along with peripheral nerves that would need regeneration.
But then again he wiggled a toe and breathes on his own now so i might be wrong.
5 million trillion trillion pounds
10 billion trillion trillion carats
You said 10 million trillion trillion carats instead of 10 billion trillion trillion as in the story
so raising your answer by 3 orders of mag. brings it back to some 3 million g's
Your answer does sound better, i'm guessing the original writer of the source may have just been confused about the order of magnitude.
maybe we could just blow it up from far away and collect the chunks instead:)
I was curious about if they could land on that to mine it (interstellar distances aside) what kinda gravity would be at the surface. so i did some simple physics calculation, double check my work.
Gravitatotional Force
Fg = G * m1 * m2 * r^-2 Gravitational Acceleration Fg/m2
Ag = G *m1 * r^-2
G = 6.67E-11
m1= 5 million trillion trillion lbs = 5 * 10^6 * 10^12 * 10^12 lbs= 5E30 lbs *(1kg/2.2lbs) = 2.26E30 kg r = diameter of 2500mi/2 = 1250mi * (1609 m/mi) = 2011680 meters
Ag= 6.67E-11 * 2.26E30kg * (2011680m)^-2 = 37,249,159.4 m/s^2
Ag = (37,249,159.4 m/s^2)/(9.8 m/s^2)= 3,800,934.63 g's
3.8 million times earth gravity?
Unless there was some mistake in the way they described the mass (million billion trillion) that seems pretty rough right?
Slashdot Mirror
Neo Orleans
Floating Mega City
Build a floating megastructure on Lake Pontchartrain.
I've already created concept designs Neo Orleans
I've already drawn up plans, but I put the city in the lake to the north.
Neo Orleans, floating megacity.
I've got images too
Neo Orleans
http://virtualearth.msn.com/default.aspx?ss=World% 20Trade%20Center&cp=40.7125|-74.011994&style=h&lvl =17&sp=adr.7609%2010th%20Ave%2C%20Brooklyn%2C%20NY %2011228&v=1
I still like google's interface better, seems a little cleaner.
i'd just do a hosts file block and add
127.0.0.1 ads22.massiveincorporated.com
to the hosts file (/windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts for me)
Barring some sort of crazy DRM enabling deal, it should prevent any of the content from loading.
I'd be much happier just having a red X on the wall then Who will be the next American Idol?
but you also get to dump a publisher like Sierra taking their cut, you get to cut the cost of the box's, manuals, CD's, the cost of transportation and physical distribution, also you cut out bestbuy and their markup. Plus you never produce a single copy more than is sold, no overstock.
Seems to me you just need to hire some programmers, buy a few servers, and rent a fat data pipe.
They should save alot of money by skipping publishing and packaging. Will the savings be passed on to us? Also there will probably be some gray area in 'owning' the copy. If it still costs $50 i'd like to have an actual copy that I can back up, or sell later, etc. All the same questions from the HL2 release.
If it runs off the car's DC system, there wouldn't be any oscillating at all would there? Also LEDs are diodes and by definition don't oscillate or alternate current.
Would unprotected sex spread the cure to others? That might hurt their revenue model if it was ever marketed.
Its not lighting up with the juice that is in the air. it just detects the "juice" in the air while the watch battery both powers the detection IC and lights up the LED.
I bequeath 200 gigs of tentacle-rape hentai.
K, got the laptop from Walmart, got my 30-case of Bud and NASCAR hat (also from Walmart), now to get that T-3 line through the trailer-park.
"glacially slow processor and anemic memory"
"designed by orangutans without opposable thumbs"
"longer than it took the Minnow's crew to escape Gilligan's Island"
"it's slower than a 330-pound defensive tackle with two bad knees on a muddy field"
"like watching the neighbor's TV with a periscope"
"look worse than an ancient Philco"
"control more twitchy than Jennifer Tilly in Seed of Chucky"
"this twisted offspring of a Norelco shaver"
"you'd be GigaWrong. Buy this one and you'll end up GigaSad"
"doesn't matter a NanoBit."
(automated voice) "This issue of Hustler has been viewed.. 21.4 ..times"
Watch them take 4 years to hand over all the requested information.
I can show my grandparents the goatse pics instead of just relying on good storytelling.
Its nothing another 6 month global release delay couldn't fix, right?
I had that 'Naked Master Chief' hack all ready for Halo 2 online.
if they wanted to reach a poorer population they should have a regular TV coax output along side the VGA.
For the most part those who actually learn about the issues to make sound decisions (both dems and reps) are already going to vote. Otherwise you're missing the idea of an election and skewing the results with garbage data and thoughtless votes.
I'd rather base an election on 100 well informed voters than a million mouth-breathers who'd want to elect Dale Ernhardt Jr anyways.
All this time I thought I was just born lazy, but its actually the working environment.
Thanks Science!
.. Dick Cheney changes the administration's position on stem cells.
But then again he wiggled a toe and breathes on his own now so i might be wrong.
10 billion trillion trillion carats
You said 10 million trillion trillion carats instead of 10 billion trillion trillion as in the story
so raising your answer by 3 orders of mag. brings it back to some 3 million g's
Your answer does sound better, i'm guessing the original writer of the source may have just been confused about the order of magnitude.
maybe we could just blow it up from far away and collect the chunks instead :)
Gravitatotional Force
Fg = G * m1 * m2 * r^-2
Gravitational Acceleration Fg/m2
Ag = G *m1 * r^-2
G = 6.67E-11
m1= 5 million trillion trillion lbs = 5 * 10^6 * 10^12 * 10^12 lbs= 5E30 lbs *(1kg/2.2lbs) = 2.26E30 kg
r = diameter of 2500mi/2 = 1250mi * (1609 m/mi) = 2011680 meters
Ag= 6.67E-11 * 2.26E30kg * (2011680m)^-2 = 37,249,159.4 m/s^2
Ag = (37,249,159.4 m/s^2)/(9.8 m/s^2)= 3,800,934.63 g's
3.8 million times earth gravity?
Unless there was some mistake in the way they described the mass (million billion trillion) that seems pretty rough right?
again correct me if i was wrong.