Well, I never seriously played Team Fortress (I think I tried an early version once and thought "Man, this sucks!"). But anyways, Doom wasn't strategyless. The maps were classic and pretty well thought out for DM or Co-op games (both of which were fun).
I know your mind is already made up ("Nothing will ever top that. NOTHING. "), but Doom offered great multiplayer fun and there was a fair amount of strategy involved. I think the reason you found it boring is because you are boring.
This seems all well and good, but what if the transmission medium is not light? Everything everyone here is refering to is based on visual events. What if the event was not visual, and the medium was not luminary but some other medium capable of transmitting at faster than light? As far as I can see it, Einsteins theory only holds up for visual things, and that's just not the whole donut now, is it?
Disclaimer: I'm not a physicist by any means (or a good speller either) and the following is most likely total FUD. It just happens to be how I see the situation.
The paradox is, if you see the man fall at the instant he does fall in his own time frame, and at the very next instant, you are adjacent to him and prevent him from falling (catching him, or whatever), you will have arrived ignoring the time it took for the light to reach your location (you are ignoring the time it takes the original light to reach your eyes at your original location), and when you catch him, he will appear to have both fallen, and been caught by yourself from the location you were originally standing at (hence the paradox) since you got to him before you would have seen him fall. The paradox, I believe, is what you would see from your original location.
Just remember that everything is relative to the observer!!
Yeah, I did read the whole post, and I wasn't ranting about your comment about the Russians, which I totally agree with. I was specifically talking about the "If it weren't for the good old US of A" part.
If it weren't for the good old US of A, France, Britain and the rest of Europe would have been living under Stalin. The US did not defeat the Germans. Russia did.
Nice revisionist history happening again here. I would yell at you for exaggerating the US's importance in Europe, but of course, nobody denies that the US Forces contributed greatly to the "ALLIED" success.
However, as is typical of US citizen bigots such as yourself, you seem to forget that there were many people from other nations fighting Nazi oppression long before the Americans even loaded one boat of troops.
Perhaps you weren't aware of the fact that US Army troops didn't even begin arriving in Europe until January 26, 1942.
The reason why your comment irks me so much is because it belittles other countries, and more specifically, the soldiers of those countries, accomplishments. What about my grandfather's? What about their brothers? Some of them fought and died in WW2, and they fought for Canada. And besides, I have always hated the fact that the American's view themselves as the saviours of Europe.
Take a drink from the fountain of "fucking clues" before you spout shit like that again.
It's good that somebody actually sat down and worked something like this out... I'm sure there are many people out there that will find this an invaluable resource.
The only thing I'm wondering is how this will work across the different BSD's, and the different Releases of each BSD, if it implements the same sort of patch system as the ports collections of these fine OS's use at the present time.
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Well, I never seriously played Team Fortress (I think I tried an early version once and thought "Man, this sucks!"). But anyways, Doom wasn't strategyless. The maps were classic and pretty well thought out for DM or Co-op games (both of which were fun).
I know your mind is already made up ("Nothing will ever top that. NOTHING. "), but Doom offered great multiplayer fun and there was a fair amount of strategy involved. I think the reason you found it boring is because you are boring.
This seems all well and good, but what if the transmission medium is not light? Everything everyone here is refering to is based on visual events. What if the event was not visual, and the medium was not luminary but some other medium capable of transmitting at faster than light? As far as I can see it, Einsteins theory only holds up for visual things, and that's just not the whole donut now, is it?
By light, they mean EMR. What is faster than EMR?
-Ryan
Disclaimer: I'm not a physicist by any means (or a good speller either) and the following is most likely total FUD. It just happens to be how I see the situation.
The paradox is, if you see the man fall at the instant he does fall in his own time frame, and at the very next instant, you are adjacent to him and prevent him from falling (catching him, or whatever), you will have arrived ignoring the time it took for the light to reach your location (you are ignoring the time it takes the original light to reach your eyes at your original location), and when you catch him, he will appear to have both fallen, and been caught by yourself from the location you were originally standing at (hence the paradox) since you got to him before you would have seen him fall. The paradox, I believe, is what you would see from your original location.
Just remember that everything is relative to the observer!!
Yeah, I did read the whole post, and I wasn't ranting about your comment about the Russians, which I totally agree with. I was specifically talking about the "If it weren't for the good old US of A" part.
If it weren't for the good old US of A, France, Britain and the rest of Europe would have been living under Stalin. The US did not defeat the Germans. Russia did.
Nice revisionist history happening again here. I would yell at you for exaggerating the US's importance in Europe, but of course, nobody denies that the US Forces contributed greatly to the "ALLIED" success.
However, as is typical of US citizen bigots such as yourself, you seem to forget that there were many people from other nations fighting Nazi oppression long before the Americans even loaded one boat of troops.
Perhaps you weren't aware of the fact that US Army troops didn't even begin arriving in Europe until January 26, 1942.
The reason why your comment irks me so much is because it belittles other countries, and more specifically, the soldiers of those countries, accomplishments. What about my grandfather's? What about their brothers? Some of them fought and died in WW2, and they fought for Canada. And besides, I have always hated the fact that the American's view themselves as the saviours of Europe.
Take a drink from the fountain of "fucking clues" before you spout shit like that again.
It's good that somebody actually sat down and worked something like this out... I'm sure there are many people out there that will find this an invaluable resource.
The only thing I'm wondering is how this will work across the different BSD's, and the different Releases of each BSD, if it implements the same sort of patch system as the ports collections of these fine OS's use at the present time.
-Ryan