Apparently there is some debate about whether gravity "travels" at the speed of light at all, because observing planetary orbits under that paradigm means your telescope ends up looking at empty space, whereas when you do your calculations with gravity as "instanteneous" you end up looking at your planet.
Because the big bang was not a big explosion -in- spacetime but an explosion -of- spacetime, a spacetime which has not stopped expanding since that event.
Spacetime is much "larger" now than right after the big bang.
I've noticed the same small annoyances (TOC etc) as you, but I *did* get AA to work.
Turns out all it took for me was to run the game in windowed mode (set to my full screen resolution) this turned on AA, and has no window "borders" either.
The diamond business is somewhat more odd though, the rocks do indeed not "do" anything but are presumed to be "rare" and thus "valuable".
However, the fact remains that diamonds are in fact not very rare at all, barring the very largest specimens, they are intentionally stockpiled and kept rare by controlling the rate at which they enter the market.
You want rare? get a proper red ruby!
Why is this relevant? because apple prices it's product like a luxury company prices it's jewelry (which, for the record can be upwards of a 500% profit margin from my experience in working in the high-end jewelry business) the price is based on:
-brand name prestige -design
the brand name prestige equates in the consumer's eye to "rarity" but a device like the iphone is of course not rare at all, apple can produce a near infinite amount of them quite readily.
I don't really have a point i guess... other than "people are very silly" =/
Ninja mining is _awesome_ when i was based in Solitude we once took out a gang of 6 vexors (nos/dual rep fit for the rats) and went off to 0.0 to kill some battleship NPCs and then ninja mine our asses off for as long as we could before running screaming from a massive gang of the local natives.
We all made it out in one piece with a delicious cargo hold full of rare ore, and SO MUCH fun =)
I know players who have been playing for 3-4 years without leaving the "newbie" corporation they started in, and they are having lots of fun! You do not HAVE to go to 0.0 and participate in the massive landgrab-warfare antics.
There's plenty of things you can do without ever setting foot in 0.0
My friends for example have set up a business with high-security research labs they put in orbit and make people pay to use the facilities, this money they use to buy ships and guns to go pirate hunting with on the weekend =)
Assuming reality is based in the mind alone my subconscious might conjure up you, the hole, and your crap-tacular posting attitude, without me being consciously aware of it.
I'd like to assert that I in no way subscribe to the above mentioned philosophy, I'm just pointing something out.
so maybe next time you will prove to be a bit less acerbic;)
...unless you're a figment of my subconcious, creating the dark room and the hole, and are thus wholly of my creation, making me fall through the hole.
that would have been *even better* Come to think of it, part of me may have liked the doom flashlight cos I could imagine myself fumbling with it trying to get my gun out *in game* as it were.
here's hoping they put in a battery pack idea, and don't leave plentiful supplies of batteries lying around =)
...but I think people who used duct-tape mods for DooM3 were playing it "wrong".
Yes, the flashlight was an ENORMOUS hassle to play with at first, but I'll be damned if the thing didn't ramp up the adrenaline rush tremendously... constantly balancing between seeing where you're going and being able to defend yourself was very very tense and scary; I loved every moment of it.
How does the Eee perform as a platform for using skype with webcam?
My girlfriend and I currently live in different countries till early next year and we spend an inordinate amount of time together on skype, but I find having my massive Compaq laptop on my lap/desk/whatever to be a bit of a bother and a lighter, smaller unit would be preferable.
But I'm a bit hesitant to fork over the cash unless I know the Eee can deliver reasonable audio/video/webcam functionality with skype.
Believe it or not, not everyone buys their laptop with built-in wifi with the idea of someday installing linux on it. Lets not even get into that many, many people don't even have a clue which chipset is used in their device...
Slashdot Mirror
And because it's in a textbook, it is suddenly True (tm) ?
Remember... it was not too long ago that we KNEW the earth was flat, and it was in every textbook.
Gotta be careful with such assertions.
Apparently there is some debate about whether gravity "travels" at the speed of light at all, because observing planetary orbits under that paradigm means your telescope ends up looking at empty space, whereas when you do your calculations with gravity as "instanteneous" you end up looking at your planet.
see:
http://metaresearch.org/cosmology/speed_of_gravity.asp
of course I am no physicist, i just read slashdot.
Because the big bang was not a big explosion -in- spacetime but an explosion -of- spacetime, a spacetime which has not stopped expanding since that event.
Spacetime is much "larger" now than right after the big bang.
How long before the first scientists start acting... peculiar? (that is, more peculiar than scientists normally act) Have *you* seen the yellow sign?
I've noticed the same small annoyances (TOC etc) as you, but I *did* get AA to work.
Turns out all it took for me was to run the game in windowed mode (set to my full screen resolution) this turned on AA, and has no window "borders" either.
Let me know if that helped?
Why is he ruling out skype?
I use skype just fine on my ubuntu/gnome desktop, to talk to people on macs and windows with video.
someone explain?
...to start a company called Umbrella Corporation, this would be it :D
What, you mean like... Hexen II ?
Don't forget drone sharpshooting and navigation! very important those...
When you get raped up the arse, do you really find the application of lube to be the important part?
The diamond business is somewhat more odd though, the rocks do indeed not "do" anything but are presumed to be "rare" and thus "valuable".
However, the fact remains that diamonds are in fact not very rare at all, barring the very largest specimens, they are intentionally stockpiled and kept rare by controlling the rate at which they enter the market.
You want rare? get a proper red ruby!
Why is this relevant? because apple prices it's product like a luxury company prices it's jewelry (which, for the record can be upwards of a 500% profit margin from my experience in working in the high-end jewelry business) the price is based on:
-brand name prestige
-design
the brand name prestige equates in the consumer's eye to "rarity" but a device like the iphone is of course not rare at all, apple can produce a near infinite amount of them quite readily.
I don't really have a point i guess... other than "people are very silly" =/
Ninja mining is _awesome_ when i was based in Solitude we once took out a gang of 6 vexors (nos/dual rep fit for the rats) and went off to 0.0 to kill some battleship NPCs and then ninja mine our asses off for as long as we could before running screaming from a massive gang of the local natives. We all made it out in one piece with a delicious cargo hold full of rare ore, and SO MUCH fun =)
I know players who have been playing for 3-4 years without leaving the "newbie" corporation they started in, and they are having lots of fun! You do not HAVE to go to 0.0 and participate in the massive landgrab-warfare antics. There's plenty of things you can do without ever setting foot in 0.0 My friends for example have set up a business with high-security research labs they put in orbit and make people pay to use the facilities, this money they use to buy ships and guns to go pirate hunting with on the weekend =)
hmmm Chakravanti...? oh wait those aren't real. =(
I'm not sure I'd call the language most americans speak "english" anymore...
...write elaborate DnD adventures and play them with coworkers during their lunch breaks.
No, you're not reading it right.
;)
Assuming reality is based in the mind alone my subconscious might conjure up you, the hole, and your crap-tacular posting attitude, without me being consciously aware of it.
I'd like to assert that I in no way subscribe to the above mentioned philosophy, I'm just pointing something out.
so maybe next time you will prove to be a bit less acerbic
...unless you're a figment of my subconcious, creating the dark room and the hole, and are thus wholly of my creation, making me fall through the hole.
And possibly... closer to the facts!
You misunderstand, we already have the information; China just doesn't want it to be available in china.
I actually really like your ideas on this =)
that would have been *even better*
Come to think of it, part of me may have liked the doom flashlight cos I could imagine myself fumbling with it trying to get my gun out *in game* as it were.
here's hoping they put in a battery pack idea, and don't leave plentiful supplies of batteries lying around =)
...but I think people who used duct-tape mods for DooM3 were playing it "wrong".
Yes, the flashlight was an ENORMOUS hassle to play with at first, but I'll be damned if the thing didn't ramp up the adrenaline rush tremendously... constantly balancing between seeing where you're going and being able to defend yourself was very very tense and scary; I loved every moment of it.
From someone who uses it in this capacity:
How does the Eee perform as a platform for using skype with webcam?
My girlfriend and I currently live in different countries till early next year and we spend an inordinate amount of time together on skype, but I find having my massive Compaq laptop on my lap/desk/whatever to be a bit of a bother and a lighter, smaller unit would be preferable.
But I'm a bit hesitant to fork over the cash unless I know the Eee can deliver reasonable audio/video/webcam functionality with skype.
Any Eee users that care to comment?
ok, will try this later tonight! I'll let you know how it went ;)
Believe it or not, not everyone buys their laptop with built-in wifi with the idea of someday installing linux on it. Lets not even get into that many, many people don't even have a clue which chipset is used in their device...