how well IGN says it is. IGN has proven its worth as a site for game reviews in the past with numerous reviews proclaiming the latest game from $big_name_developer to be super. With their front page loaded with ads for the very same game. And pretty much every other review site out there says the game just makes it to the better end of mediocrity.
Without scanlations I'd never have (re)discovered what a wonderful game Go is. Thanks to Hikaru no Go, I got around to playing a little again (I still suck badly though). It has even been picked up, so there will be a US release of it. (Though I think I will still prefer Toriyamaworld's translations out of sheer habit).
BTW, if you happen across a little gem called Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, then go download it. It comes highly recommended ^_^.
I never had any challenge whatsoever in math, physics or chemistry all the way up to and including $roughly_high_school_equivalent (=$rhse).
The best example of this probably that back in $rhse I developed the (admittedly very bad) habit of routinely writing weekly math assignments in the class before or in the class where it was to be handed in. Honestly, I have had absolutely no before university.
And studying for math and physics exams was of course something that was done in a couple of hours in bed while listening to music on the radio. It was more "keeping up appearances" than anything else.
Now, I struggle with breaking that habit, and man is it hard. 10 years or so of in-grown habits are really hard to shake off. Naturally this complete lack of work ethics didn't go well with the much increased requirements that the university put on me, and thus my grades (which were straigh A's in math) plummeted. I know what I could have done differently, but it doesn't change that I am pretty bitter that I never really got to do anything with my talents in the first 13 years that I went to school.
Just goes to prove that the Danish school system is designed to make every child equally stupid I guess.
The Danish telco TDC has blocked both in- and outgoing connections on port 25 to all other servers than their own smtp.mail.dk for all PPPoE using ADSL customers. I have several issues with this:
1) What if I want to create a mailing list for a project that I (hypothetically) am making and host the e-mail server myself?
2) I have absolutely no idea what their virus filter du jour is. Nor do I have any influence on it. If it nukes a ZIP file that I was trying to send (or hoping to receive) then it's just bad luck I guess.
3) The performerance of smtp.mail.dk has been known to be abysmal at times... I wouldn't call it smart to force all e-mail to go through your server if it couldn't even handle the load when only some percentage of what your customers sent went through it earlier...
And I have to deal with this crud because some morons don't belong on the internet, aren't using a firewall and get infected with every single fscking e-mail "virus" [*] that is sent their way.
Not to mention how frustrating it was when my e-mail suddenly one day just stopped working.
[*]: Trojan of course. But noone ever seems to use the right terminology.
Filtering content that is illegal no matter how you look at it is fine with me, but then they also have to accept that if they fail to filter a page, they should be liable for damages (and possibly criminal charges).
Except for the fact that there is little to no code from Open DivX 4 in the XviD encoder any more. (But don't quote me on that, as it was written in some forum post on doom9.org, and I don't know where it has gone).
Seriously, that smiley was totally uncalled for. What he deserved was to be rediculed for being a complete asshat that apparently doesn't know the name of one of the most important and talented scientists ever.
Given that this is/., it doesn't *surprise* me that there are people this ignorant here (given the huge user base and that little thing called "statistics"), but some things just *deserve* to be pointed out and laughed at!
Of course "orthogonalize" is a word. In addition to the more well-known (?) Gram-Schmidt orthonormalization algorithm, there is also one for orthogonalization where you don't normalize the vectors you find.
But... that's just C?
Stupid operator algebra taking over my head...
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On the somewhat more negative side: with the advent of WMP9, the plugin no longer works in Mozilla. Did MS go out of their way to make it so that it doesn't work with gecko-based browsers or what?
Is it possible to set Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox (/whatever they are calling it next...) up so it uses the same shortcuts as Mozilla?
I personally find the default hotkey layout of Mozilla way better than that of FireFox (especially ctrl+enter in the adress bar for opening up a new tab for a URL, I have typed)
I'd like to pick one of your points apart: "You can safely not use basic units in SC/WC3 once you get better ones, but you ignore the level1 units in TA at your peril, even when you're playing the expansion and have tier three units available."
IMO the high point of Starcraft (and in particular Brood Wars) is that no unit ever becomes obsolete*. A few examples:
1) Medics and marines never get useless against Zerg unless they go with massive amounts of ultralisks in which case you ought to be smart enough to get some tanks**.
2) You almost always keep making zealots throughout the game***. They are cheap compared to the rest of what you have, very durable, and the best unit to counter Zerg hydralisks, which they will usually build in large amounts.
3) Zerglings and hydralisks are the backbone of any Zerg army. Zerglings can dish out damage like no tomorrow with the hive level upgrade, but they can't take it - thus making them perfect for hit and runs on undefended expansions, while hydralisks are good all-round warriors that deal somewhat lower damage for a higher cost and have many more hitpoints.
Basically the only one-unit army that you see used with any success is the Protoss carrier flood****, which usually spells death for the victim because they are so hard to kill and those interceptors really screw up the AI of your units. It's like a smoke screen that does damage. The obvious "trick" to counter it is of course to not let him get it in the first place. Such a thing takes time and a lot of gas to get.
It is true, that you will often see that players produce some specific/unit{ combination}?/ to counter what the enemy does, rather than just build whatever***** they know is capable of beating it.
Other than that, the one thing that I really think makes SC truly a better game than any other RTS is the balance of the races that is so incredibly close to perfection. In fact I think that it would be impossible to make the balance much better without giving the game support for damage and armor measured as floats rather than ints.
*: The notable exception is with Terran against Protoss where marines and firebats are just torn apart by templars, reavers and carriers. Heavy mech (all tanks, vultures, goliath) is the only way to go in a TvP.
**: Well... technically you should have killed him before he reached late game tech. Late game Zerg owns everything terran has - assuming some level of skill of course.
***: Unless, of course, that you are playing on an islands map, in which case melee units are not very useful.
****: As popularized by all the newbies and lamers playing on BGH and other $$$-maps - along with the "20 cannon choke!!!11!! OMFG u 5uXX0r!!1". It has also given rise to such amazing utterings such as: "Executing the 18 carrier rush takes l337 skillz" or something to that effect.
*****: Compared with the candy store of units that TA is******.
****** Feel free to correct me on this as I have never actually played it, but am I entirely wrong if I say that you had an absurdly high number of different units to choose from in TA?
PS: WOW! That turned out to be a pretty long post just for a relatively small comment in a somewhat old thread...
Age of Kings didn't have attack-move, but it did have patrol (which works just like attack-move until the units reach the destination). The hotkey i "Z", iirc.
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Cabinets and monitors are a lot easier to handle and take up a lot less space than TVs.
Here is the number in km/L.
(I have loved that 'word' ever since that time where djWheat happened to use it on Epileptic Gaming :D </blatant advertising>)
Some time next year Disney will release a new and uncut version with subtitles and a new dub.
how well IGN says it is. IGN has proven its worth as a site for game reviews in the past with numerous reviews proclaiming the latest game from $big_name_developer to be super. With their front page loaded with ads for the very same game. And pretty much every other review site out there says the game just makes it to the better end of mediocrity.
BTW, if you happen across a little gem called Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, then go download it. It comes highly recommended ^_^.
clicky goodness.
Seeing things like this:is hurting my eyes.
This page has more information about this horrible malfeature.
s/before university/challenges before university/
Serves me right for not proofreading well enough.
The best example of this probably that back in $rhse I developed the (admittedly very bad) habit of routinely writing weekly math assignments in the class before or in the class where it was to be handed in. Honestly, I have had absolutely no before university.
And studying for math and physics exams was of course something that was done in a couple of hours in bed while listening to music on the radio. It was more "keeping up appearances" than anything else.
Now, I struggle with breaking that habit, and man is it hard. 10 years or so of in-grown habits are really hard to shake off. Naturally this complete lack of work ethics didn't go well with the much increased requirements that the university put on me, and thus my grades (which were straigh A's in math) plummeted. I know what I could have done differently, but it doesn't change that I am pretty bitter that I never really got to do anything with my talents in the first 13 years that I went to school.
Just goes to prove that the Danish school system is designed to make every child equally stupid I guess.
1) What if I want to create a mailing list for a project that I (hypothetically) am making and host the e-mail server myself?
2) I have absolutely no idea what their virus filter du jour is. Nor do I have any influence on it. If it nukes a ZIP file that I was trying to send (or hoping to receive) then it's just bad luck I guess.
3) The performerance of smtp.mail.dk has been known to be abysmal at times... I wouldn't call it smart to force all e-mail to go through your server if it couldn't even handle the load when only some percentage of what your customers sent went through it earlier...
And I have to deal with this crud because some morons don't belong on the internet, aren't using a firewall and get infected with every single fscking e-mail "virus" [*] that is sent their way.
Not to mention how frustrating it was when my e-mail suddenly one day just stopped working.
[*]: Trojan of course. But noone ever seems to use the right terminology.
You could pick up toothing.
The door swings both ways.
Go here for an explanation (funny webcomic IMO).
Except for the fact that there is little to no code from Open DivX 4 in the XviD encoder any more. (But don't quote me on that, as it was written in some forum post on doom9.org, and I don't know where it has gone).
Seriously, that smiley was totally uncalled for. What he deserved was to be rediculed for being a complete asshat that apparently doesn't know the name of one of the most important and talented scientists ever.
Given that this is /., it doesn't *surprise* me that there are people this ignorant here (given the huge user base and that little thing called "statistics"), but some things just *deserve* to be pointed out and laughed at!
So without any further ado: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I'd say Deadly Rooms of Death is the hardest game I have played. The puzzles are just mindboggling hard. I think back on level 15 with horror.
Of course "orthogonalize" is a word. In addition to the more well-known (?) Gram-Schmidt orthonormalization algorithm, there is also one for orthogonalization where you don't normalize the vectors you find.
But... that's just C? Stupid operator algebra taking over my head...
On the somewhat more negative side: with the advent of WMP9, the plugin no longer works in Mozilla. Did MS go out of their way to make it so that it doesn't work with gecko-based browsers or what?
Did anyone else think of that horribly embarrassing movie "Swordfish" when they read the synopsis?
How dare you post a story about an aim bot? There are enough cheaters on the servers of all FPS's out there already! ^_^
I personally find the default hotkey layout of Mozilla way better than that of FireFox (especially ctrl+enter in the adress bar for opening up a new tab for a URL, I have typed)
IMO the high point of Starcraft (and in particular Brood Wars) is that no unit ever becomes obsolete*. A few examples:
1) Medics and marines never get useless against Zerg unless they go with massive amounts of ultralisks in which case you ought to be smart enough to get some tanks**.
2) You almost always keep making zealots throughout the game***. They are cheap compared to the rest of what you have, very durable, and the best unit to counter Zerg hydralisks, which they will usually build in large amounts.
3) Zerglings and hydralisks are the backbone of any Zerg army. Zerglings can dish out damage like no tomorrow with the hive level upgrade, but they can't take it - thus making them perfect for hit and runs on undefended expansions, while hydralisks are good all-round warriors that deal somewhat lower damage for a higher cost and have many more hitpoints.
Basically the only one-unit army that you see used with any success is the Protoss carrier flood****, which usually spells death for the victim because they are so hard to kill and those interceptors really screw up the AI of your units. It's like a smoke screen that does damage. The obvious "trick" to counter it is of course to not let him get it in the first place. Such a thing takes time and a lot of gas to get.
It is true, that you will often see that players produce some specific /unit{ combination}?/ to counter what the enemy does, rather than just build whatever***** they know is capable of beating it.
Other than that, the one thing that I really think makes SC truly a better game than any other RTS is the balance of the races that is so incredibly close to perfection. In fact I think that it would be impossible to make the balance much better without giving the game support for damage and armor measured as floats rather than ints.
*: The notable exception is with Terran against Protoss where marines and firebats are just torn apart by templars, reavers and carriers. Heavy mech (all tanks, vultures, goliath) is the only way to go in a TvP.
**: Well... technically you should have killed him before he reached late game tech. Late game Zerg owns everything terran has - assuming some level of skill of course.
***: Unless, of course, that you are playing on an islands map, in which case melee units are not very useful.
****: As popularized by all the newbies and lamers playing on BGH and other $$$-maps - along with the "20 cannon choke!!!11!! OMFG u 5uXX0r!!1". It has also given rise to such amazing utterings such as: "Executing the 18 carrier rush takes l337 skillz" or something to that effect.
*****: Compared with the candy store of units that TA is******.
****** Feel free to correct me on this as I have never actually played it, but am I entirely wrong if I say that you had an absurdly high number of different units to choose from in TA?
PS: WOW! That turned out to be a pretty long post just for a relatively small comment in a somewhat old thread...
Age of Kings didn't have attack-move, but it did have patrol (which works just like attack-move until the units reach the destination). The hotkey i "Z", iirc.