I played WiC incessantly since the demo before release up until about two weeks ago. It was very good, but it really isn't holding up for me. There seems to be very little for people who want to play it competitively but also don't aspire to be professional gamers. It's either play boring games against random newbies on public servers where you win all the time or play in boring clan matches against dedicated e-sports people who hand you your ass all the time. Put in baseball terms, I can play against either the local 6 year old T-ball team or a AAA/Major league-level baseball team, when I'm looking for a good high school or an NCAA division II college team for an opponent. The single-player campaign is very good, though.
And I just played Supreme Commander again last night for the first time in several months, and I'm going to dispute you on the graphics. WiC's graphics are better, hands down. I was struck last night by how jerky and muddled everything looked in it right after playing WiC. I had restarted the single-player mission last night, and found it almost unwatchable after WiC. I quit halfway through the first mission.
Police Departments don't magically appear out of nowhere, like some mist-born horror that must be battled at all costs with whatever weapons come readily to hand.
You're right, they don't. What I want to know is: Why the hell not? That would be cool as hell Somebody call John Carpenter... this would make a great movie!
Was I the only one to read this post and hear it in Slim Pickens' voice as Major Kong when he goes over the survival kit contents with the rest of his flight crew?
We really have no way of knowing. Government is similar... it's more like "I'll do ya, then take a chunk of that tiger you killed." It's a subtle but important distinction.
If there's a civilization that can shut down supermassive black holes at will then we'd know about it by now. Either because we're on the menu or we're needed to help clean the sewer mains on the black-hole-shutting-down supership. I think it's more likely we'd sanitize their phones.
You're telling me.:-) If it's any consolation, only in the first one was I at fault, and when I went to court and explained the accident, I actually got the the smallest fine I could have gotten under law: 20 dollars plus court costs (which was 27 dollars, so the court costs were higher).
The last one was a car-full of drunken idiots ran a stop sign right in front of me and I T-boned them going about 55 MPH. Shit happens.
I was in a bad car wreck in 1994 driving to work. My perception was that time came to an almost complete stop for a bit. The most striking detail I remember was dust from the dashboard suspended in the air, almost perfectly still. It was a very strange experience, and one that was not repeated when I was in an even worse accident in 2005. My guess is trying to recreate something like that experimentally would be damn near impossible, unless you were willing to engage in gross human subject ethics violations.
After the crash stopped though, it seemed time had sped up because a cassette tape in the stereo got pushed into the player and it ran at double speed. Hearing a Chipmunks rendition of "A Farewell to Kings" definitely added to the weirdness of the scene.:-) I never did figure out how the tape player broke to play tapes that fast as the car was totalled and I only saw it one more time to recover personal effects.
If that's the case there's a chance Iran may be accused by the intelligence community of trying to peddle 80s Brit synth pop, which in my mind is a far worse crime.
There's more to cataloging books than just finding them. We've probably got only a couple thousand, but my wife catalogs them using LibraryThing and also stores them in a local file. To my knowledge, we've never used either to find a book in our house, but these things give us:
An easy way when we're out to see if we already own a copy of a book. LibraryThing has a mobile interface that makes checking with a cell phone easy.
A document for the insurance man if we ever get hit by a fire or other disaster (you do offsite backups regularly, right?).
An easy way of tagging books when they get packed for moves so that the library can be restored efficiently at the other end.
I agree that you don't need a computer to find a book in a collection of less than 10,000 books. If you can't organize those physically well enough to find them without a computer, a computer is just going to make it harder. Sorting by fiction/non-fiction and then by author is sufficient for us (with a special computer books section) to find anything pretty quickly. But it's pretty difficult to remember if you already have book sixty-two in the "Accordion of Fate" series or whether you have the third or fourth edition of O'Reilly's "Programming $ELITIST_LANGUAGE_OF_THE_MONTH" when you're out and about. And if you lose your whole collection, the chances of remembering the whole thing are virtually nil unless you have perfect photographic memory, in which case, why do you need to keep books around in the first place?:-)
And the flamebait mod for the parent post was unfair and I hope it's M2ed as such.
Man, I hear you. I read this book once, called "The Holy Bible" and I never found out ANYTHING about a bible, much less a holy one. Instead it was a bunch of stuff about this "THE LORD" guy and a bunch of people that followed him or didn't follow him, then some Roman thugs nail his son to a tree. After that it didn't really go anywhere (a couple other guys get nailed to trees, too, but it's kind of anticlimactic after the first one), but it had a pretty spectacular ending where THE LORD gets some payback that I imagine some special effects guys could go crazy with if they ever made it into a movie.
Overall, it was kind of disappointing, though. Never did find out about a bible and whoever wrote it really needed their editor to reel it in.
The most terrifying part of that page was the brainfuck interpreter implemented in TECO. *shudder* Someday when the stars are right, Cthulhu dreaming in R'yleh will run that program and unmake the world.
I was going to explain the whole story to you, but I'm not in the habit of defending myself to random assholes on the net, so the epithet was all you got. Your response shows you to be the type of person who is so sure they are the final arbiters of all that is right and just that it would've certainly been a waste of time. You know nothing whatsoever of me, and if you did, you would know that calling me an "enabler of fascism" would be laughable if it weren't so damn sad. But you, the original font of all knowledge, have already pronounced your judgment and decided I'm guilty. The cures offered by people of your ilk are worse than the disease.
As to cowardice, you're the one taking pot-shots of people across the internet, big man. If you'd like to arrange a more personal venue to call me a coward, just let me know.
Is it really fun to post to random threads with your bullshit and then post "I just OWNED YOU BITCH!!!!" and the end of your comments? What are you, eleven? Go back to your little friends on Xbox Live, boy, before your parents get home and catch you on the computer.
I would like to remind everyone here that NASA is NOT a civilian space agency, it a branch of the Department of Defense and if you read the charter you shouldn't be surprised at all about this.
You write as though you are awfully certain of this, but the fact is it is not, nor ever has been the case. It is a civilian organization, which does not report to the Secretary of Defense, but is accountable to the President and Congress. The military operates its own space program, separate from, but in close cooperation with NASA.
I've been to JPL a couple times when I worked on some Mars Odyssey related stuff, and security is kind of tight for the whole facility. One of the software engineers in our lab is a Pakistani citizen and he wasn't even allowed to come to a party we had there once.
To my knowledge, there's little classified work that goes on there, but I'm sure there's sensitive stuff... it's literally rocket science. These background checks sound a little too intrusive for a bunch of science geeks, though.
Ignoring the strawman* you've erected for the moment, let's talk about the war on drugs and tell me how you expect to stop the flow of drugs. My brother-in-law got busted for smoking pot in September. Trouble was, at the time he was already in a maximum security prison, and has been for nearly seventeen years now. So please tell me: If we can't keep illicit drugs away from felons in a maximum security prison, how do you propose we keep them away from 300 million people in the third largest country in the world, geographically speaking? If your answer is to turn the entire country into a giant ultra-supermax gulag, you've pretty much admitted defeat in my eyes, as I find that wholly unacceptable.
* - I have a friend who had a terrible heroin addiction for years. He's been clean for about six years now, but I'm still opposed to the war on drugs. Also, compare and contrast: isolationist vs. non-interventionist. Pat Buchanan is an isolationist. Most libertarians are non-interventionists... though it is a fair cop to say some have isolationist tendencies.
And whatever else there is to say about it, it's still nothing but security by obscurity. Most burglars don't know where I live, do you really believe that significantly lowers the risk someone breaks into my house?
Allowing promiscuous zone transfers is more akin to posting the layout of your house on your front door, possibly including which picture the safe is behind. You're right that it doesn't really reduce or increase your chances of being victimized, but if you get chosen by the bad guys, why hand them a map? There's nothing wrong with security through obscurity, as long as its not your only means of defense. In any case, it's not like it's terribly difficult to secure BIND to allow transfers to authorized clients only:
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It's "you insensitive clod", you insensitive clod!
640k is enough for anyone, especially Bob and Clippy.
I played WiC incessantly since the demo before release up until about two weeks ago. It was very good, but it really isn't holding up for me. There seems to be very little for people who want to play it competitively but also don't aspire to be professional gamers. It's either play boring games against random newbies on public servers where you win all the time or play in boring clan matches against dedicated e-sports people who hand you your ass all the time. Put in baseball terms, I can play against either the local 6 year old T-ball team or a AAA/Major league-level baseball team, when I'm looking for a good high school or an NCAA division II college team for an opponent. The single-player campaign is very good, though.
And I just played Supreme Commander again last night for the first time in several months, and I'm going to dispute you on the graphics. WiC's graphics are better, hands down. I was struck last night by how jerky and muddled everything looked in it right after playing WiC. I had restarted the single-player mission last night, and found it almost unwatchable after WiC. I quit halfway through the first mission.
You're right, they don't. What I want to know is: Why the hell not? That would be cool as hell Somebody call John Carpenter... this would make a great movie!
Was I the only one to read this post and hear it in Slim Pickens' voice as Major Kong when he goes over the survival kit contents with the rest of his flight crew?
We really have no way of knowing. Government is similar... it's more like "I'll do ya, then take a chunk of that tiger you killed." It's a subtle but important distinction.
I'm gonna hold out for "Hobbits on an Airplane", myself.
You're telling me. :-) If it's any consolation, only in the first one was I at fault, and when I went to court and explained the accident, I actually got the the smallest fine I could have gotten under law: 20 dollars plus court costs (which was 27 dollars, so the court costs were higher).
The last one was a car-full of drunken idiots ran a stop sign right in front of me and I T-boned them going about 55 MPH. Shit happens.
It's on the Potomac River, about 100 miles upstream from the Chesapeake Bay.
I was in a bad car wreck in 1994 driving to work. My perception was that time came to an almost complete stop for a bit. The most striking detail I remember was dust from the dashboard suspended in the air, almost perfectly still. It was a very strange experience, and one that was not repeated when I was in an even worse accident in 2005. My guess is trying to recreate something like that experimentally would be damn near impossible, unless you were willing to engage in gross human subject ethics violations.
After the crash stopped though, it seemed time had sped up because a cassette tape in the stereo got pushed into the player and it ran at double speed. Hearing a Chipmunks rendition of "A Farewell to Kings" definitely added to the weirdness of the scene. :-) I never did figure out how the tape player broke to play tapes that fast as the car was totalled and I only saw it one more time to recover personal effects.
If that's the case there's a chance Iran may be accused by the intelligence community of trying to peddle 80s Brit synth pop, which in my mind is a far worse crime.
There's more to cataloging books than just finding them. We've probably got only a couple thousand, but my wife catalogs them using LibraryThing and also stores them in a local file. To my knowledge, we've never used either to find a book in our house, but these things give us:
I agree that you don't need a computer to find a book in a collection of less than 10,000 books. If you can't organize those physically well enough to find them without a computer, a computer is just going to make it harder. Sorting by fiction/non-fiction and then by author is sufficient for us (with a special computer books section) to find anything pretty quickly. But it's pretty difficult to remember if you already have book sixty-two in the "Accordion of Fate" series or whether you have the third or fourth edition of O'Reilly's "Programming $ELITIST_LANGUAGE_OF_THE_MONTH" when you're out and about. And if you lose your whole collection, the chances of remembering the whole thing are virtually nil unless you have perfect photographic memory, in which case, why do you need to keep books around in the first place? :-)
And the flamebait mod for the parent post was unfair and I hope it's M2ed as such.
Man, I hear you. I read this book once, called "The Holy Bible" and I never found out ANYTHING about a bible, much less a holy one. Instead it was a bunch of stuff about this "THE LORD" guy and a bunch of people that followed him or didn't follow him, then some Roman thugs nail his son to a tree. After that it didn't really go anywhere (a couple other guys get nailed to trees, too, but it's kind of anticlimactic after the first one), but it had a pretty spectacular ending where THE LORD gets some payback that I imagine some special effects guys could go crazy with if they ever made it into a movie.
Overall, it was kind of disappointing, though. Never did find out about a bible and whoever wrote it really needed their editor to reel it in.
The most terrifying part of that page was the brainfuck interpreter implemented in TECO. *shudder* Someday when the stars are right, Cthulhu dreaming in R'yleh will run that program and unmake the world.
A completely unfair mod. I'm a Ron Paul supporter and I found the comment funny as hell.
I was going to explain the whole story to you, but I'm not in the habit of defending myself to random assholes on the net, so the epithet was all you got. Your response shows you to be the type of person who is so sure they are the final arbiters of all that is right and just that it would've certainly been a waste of time. You know nothing whatsoever of me, and if you did, you would know that calling me an "enabler of fascism" would be laughable if it weren't so damn sad. But you, the original font of all knowledge, have already pronounced your judgment and decided I'm guilty. The cures offered by people of your ilk are worse than the disease.
As to cowardice, you're the one taking pot-shots of people across the internet, big man. If you'd like to arrange a more personal venue to call me a coward, just let me know.
Fuck you, too, asshole.
Is it really fun to post to random threads with your bullshit and then post "I just OWNED YOU BITCH!!!!" and the end of your comments? What are you, eleven? Go back to your little friends on Xbox Live, boy, before your parents get home and catch you on the computer.
People have been out to mod-bomb Mr. Cornelius for YEARS. I don't always agree with him, but I always appreciate his posts.
You write as though you are awfully certain of this, but the fact is it is not, nor ever has been the case. It is a civilian organization, which does not report to the Secretary of Defense, but is accountable to the President and Congress. The military operates its own space program, separate from, but in close cooperation with NASA.
I've been to JPL a couple times when I worked on some Mars Odyssey related stuff, and security is kind of tight for the whole facility. One of the software engineers in our lab is a Pakistani citizen and he wasn't even allowed to come to a party we had there once.
To my knowledge, there's little classified work that goes on there, but I'm sure there's sensitive stuff... it's literally rocket science. These background checks sound a little too intrusive for a bunch of science geeks, though.
Ignoring the strawman* you've erected for the moment, let's talk about the war on drugs and tell me how you expect to stop the flow of drugs. My brother-in-law got busted for smoking pot in September. Trouble was, at the time he was already in a maximum security prison, and has been for nearly seventeen years now. So please tell me: If we can't keep illicit drugs away from felons in a maximum security prison, how do you propose we keep them away from 300 million people in the third largest country in the world, geographically speaking? If your answer is to turn the entire country into a giant ultra-supermax gulag, you've pretty much admitted defeat in my eyes, as I find that wholly unacceptable.
* - I have a friend who had a terrible heroin addiction for years. He's been clean for about six years now, but I'm still opposed to the war on drugs. Also, compare and contrast: isolationist vs. non-interventionist. Pat Buchanan is an isolationist. Most libertarians are non-interventionists... though it is a fair cop to say some have isolationist tendencies.
Allowing promiscuous zone transfers is more akin to posting the layout of your house on your front door, possibly including which picture the safe is behind. You're right that it doesn't really reduce or increase your chances of being victimized, but if you get chosen by the bad guys, why hand them a map? There's nothing wrong with security through obscurity, as long as its not your only means of defense. In any case, it's not like it's terribly difficult to secure BIND to allow transfers to authorized clients only:
And you're done. What's so objectionable about that?