One would think that swords and primitive firearms would beat out the guy with the stack of papers and the odd mechanical contraption.
History has proven otherwise.
Unfortunately in this age those who plunder are the publishers (in the music business at least.) Have you seen the contracts new artists end up having to sign?
I know...RTFA, it's software publishers not music.
You mean ccommon place enough to already be in Wal-Mart? I mean this place is usually far behind technology, and they are the largest retailer in the US. Actually, many HDTV products are available there with 17" LCDs on their website going for around $299.
I have a used 21 inch trinitron.
Something like 2000x pixels wide.
That's got 1080 I/P beat hands down. Gamers on the PC LOVE HD. For those who can afford the video cards we already have it too. I'm talking $100 video cards. 1200x pixels at framerates of 30FPS+ (not with all the options turned to max for gfx in the games though.)
So, if you have a PC, and you have $175 laying about ($100 for a video card and $75 for a used CRT) you can get better than HD quality for your games.
- my first somewhat realistic FPS shooter. With mods you get all sorts of goodies like smoke grenades, HE mortars, Smoke mortars, and about every man portable weapon system you can imagine.
Quake
- my first FPS INFANTRY shooter. Quite twitch.
Descent
- True 3D flight in zero G and zero atmo. Love it.
Star/Warcraft
- Great RTS, great stories. Great cutscenes.
Galatic Empire
- Old text based BBS game. Free movement in 2d. Two realms of speed - impulse and warp - Torpedoes, phasers, missiles, mines (in later versions) fighters and armies for planetary warfare. Planetary and Galatic economies. Tradewars without movement limitations.
Battletech MUSH ( I know this makes 6 )
- AWESOME - multiplayer mech wars with B-tech rules all enforced, double blind, all optional rules, tanks, vtols, aerospace, elementals, etc.
The one with the dice liquor and women ( I know... 7 )
- Die one : Kiss, Lick, Bite, touch, tickle, spank - Die two : neck, lips, feet, genitals, chest/breasts, butt - Beer keg - Always refilled shot glass - Women (well, okay just one woman.) - Some of the few life experiences one does not share with their spouse (assuming game is not played with spouse.)
Almost make the list: Tetris Populous and early CIVs Battle Chess Tradewars That java graphical re-creation of the battletech board game in a turn based format A few MUDS/MUSHES/MOOS That star-trek game from way back when... nettrek
Not Even Close: MMORPGs of every sort - Level grinds . . . repeatedly camping spawns for loot required for a quest . . . crafting . . . crafting . . . crafting . . . it's like work!
Dude, I feel your paid. Some problem but Homeworld was the game. Apparently a local retailer had sold out all their copies to one person. That person then returned all copies to the store to exchange for something else or gift card or whatever they got back. End result, all the CD kets on HOMEWORLD in that store were sold (or given?) out and anyone who bought the real deal ot stuck with the same CD KEY ALREADY USED problem. I won't name the retailer as I have a business relationship with them that I would like to keep.
Gravitational heating left over from the formation of the planets and radioactive decay both provide for heat in the cores of the planets in our solar system. For alot of detail on this subject you can look here
"As I recall there have been PLENTY of wars well before the US Congress got around to declaring one"
Nope, only "conflicts".
Tell this to all the folks in Europe and the Asian portions of the Pacific. There most defenitely was a great war on well before December 8 1942(42?) It was no mere conflict.
Granted the UNITED STATES (theoreticly) does not enter a state of war without the consent of its legeslative body. But even then ask any soldier or marine who did service in SE Asia in the mid to late 60's and ask them if they did or did not fight a war.
Indeed. Apple is not going to like the fact that some other company is going to sell their technology. Thats what patents are for right? Wait... there is plenty of prior art for cryptography (thats all DRM is, crypto for media, when you're given the right to play the media you are allowed to decrypt it.)
How will it work here? A court says DVD JON stop it, that's apple technology they worked hard to make. A court says APPLE CHILL OUT, DVD JON is going to let other MP3 players play FAIRPLAY files and non-Ipod owners will spend their money on your iTunes store.
I'm sure apple would love to sell more iPods, but then again, they could end up selling more music.
I predict lawsuits myself, the legal department will feel the need to get them going if only to prove to the bosses that they are doing productive work for the company.
"Attacking on uniformed soldiers of nation A is AN ACT OF war WHEN YOU ARE A UNIFORMED SOLDER OF NATION B,C,D,E or so on."
There. Clarified. Some nations other than the USA do not need congress to declare war BTW. As I recall there have been PLENTY of wars well before the US Congress got around to declaring one. One only needs to think of the most recent big one. It was a war for quite some time before the USA decided to become armed combatants (declare war.) There is a big world outside your borders and it moves without seeking the consent of your Congress.
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Fuel cells are still very hot (at least in the reformation process).
Not only the heat, but am I going to have to get my notebook smogged?
Just don't let SONY make these. They will have a rootkit and burst into flames, even when turned off.
Well that's one way of looking at it. At the risk of godwinning myself, that condemns the US colonists, the French, Yugoslav and Soviet resistance to Nazi occupation and various other good guys to the criminal bin. In any case, resistance of this sort is NOT terrorism - terrorism is force against civilians for political purposes.
I reply: Sometimes one must partake in a criminal action. When your moral compass points you one way and the enviroment(nation) you live in points another you can stand up for what you think is right (Rosa Parks, French partisans, American revolutionaries, etc.) or you can sit back and watch as people you think of as evil/misguided/wrong go unopposed (typical soldier in the army of WWII Germany, guards of internment camps in the USA for those of Asian descent.)
Being CRIMINAL dosen't automaticly mean being wrong. I was being legalistic not moralistic in the 1st post. Now you see the moralistic side of this issue.
War/Star-craft teaches these terrorists the value of clear cutting forests/crystal formations and strip-mining of ore/vespine gas. When their supplies run out do they come up with "alternative energy" like solar or geothermal? Hell no, they attack their neighbors in order to have a go at clear-cutting and strip-mining their homelands.
Attacking on uniformed soldiers of nation A is war WHEN YOU ARE A UNIFORMED SOLDER OF NATION B,C,D,E or so on.
Attacking ANYONE when you are not a uniformed member of an armed force of a sovreign nation makes you a criminal (assuming murder/attempted murder is a crime in the place where you do this attacking.)
Attacking any civilian regardless of your status as civilian vs soldier is a crime (again, asumptions about local laws.
So, civilians attack = crime (The Brits thought those colonists were criminals for example, and they were, but they won, so they write the history to look like the good guys..which they may or may not be...that's for a diffrent debate.)
MS Flight sim to train kamakazie jihadist. We all know how well that worked. "WTF DOOD, THERES NO MOUSE! WHERE IS F6, I NEED THE CHASE PLANE VIEW TO FLY THIS TUB"
by EnderWigginsXenocide (852478) on Wed Apr 26, '06 08:59 AM (#15205234) (http://ladeda.com/) QUOTE
Look at how many idiot drivers fail to see emergency vehicles with lights and sirens blaring, and tell me that they'll notice loud pipes./QUOTE
REPLY
In the past few years a popular German auto maker ran a series of commercials where their car was operated on a noise city street. Traffic. Construction. Emergency vehicles. "Cars that go boom"(loud music, if you can call that music.)
The windows go up and complete silence. A hand turns of the gain on the onboard sound system and Bach or Brahms comes pouring out of the TV set. Lovely. Cars marketed by playing up the fact that you are isolated from the driving environment as much as possible. Coming soon will be blinders to go with the ear-plugs. Wait...they are here..see many cars with narrow windows, big pillars, heavy window tinting and "wings" added on that all cause problems for driver visibility.
Add to that many car magazines that cater the "luxury and performance segment" will rate a car LOWER if you are not sufficiently soundproofed, as outside annoyances like Police, Fire, and EMS sires, will seriously fuck up your driving experience when they impinge upon your enjoyment of a 5000000 watt 30 speaker Dolby DTS digital 70.1 surround sound system. [Numerical exadurations intentional]
Anyhow, to the point, auto makers and car enthusiasts are turning their cars into boxes where they can be blind and deaf while motoring about.
When you want quite and blind get yourself a coffin and get out of the fucking car before you put other motorists or pedestrians into their own coffins.
If the car is a sound proof tomb a pair of headsets won't make a bit of diffrence.
I have a damiler/chrystler product with Casette CD and 6 DVD/CD changer in dash (no MP3 support, no MPEG support, no DVD-R or DVD+R support.) Yeah, new machines still come with casettes.
Unfortunately I also have a Ford/Lincoln/Mercury/Jag/LandRover product with a CD changer. This thing has no MP3 or CDR/RW support. No imput jack. No Casette deck. I have to use a FM Modulator to get MP3s to play with this car. Royal pain in the arse.
In California (and other states?) there are provisional ballots. You make a claim regarding your identity and the status of your voter registration. Your vote. Supposedly at some time after voting there is an investegation of some sort to determine the validity of your claim regarding identification and voter registration status.
With estimates of two to fourteen million(depends on who you ask) illegal foreign nationals residing in California I doubt there's the manpower to check all these proviosnal ballots. That's alot of paper to go through in a very short time, with limited staff and funding.
I don't know if it takes only 4 minutes to go through the provisional voting process as I have always had proper ID and paperwork on hand when going to vote.
Up to 200Million from 200? That's BLOATWARE if I've ever seen it.
Microsoft OS used to work on a 8Mhz machine and now will require a 4Ghz machine(4000Mhz) to run well(MS Vista.) That's only a 500x increase. The 1,000,000 time increase here makes that look like a drop in the bucket!
Halo also has a "spread shot" weapon. The shotgun. Up cloase multiple projectiles hit for big damage. At medium range the dispersion of the shot makes you more likely to score at least some damage against a target.
Too bad our nukes are going to become unstable as they age. A loss of reliability and predictability of yield. I think we should start looking at making new nukes before it's too late!
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One would think that swords and primitive firearms would beat out the guy with the stack of papers and the odd mechanical contraption.
History has proven otherwise.
Unfortunately in this age those who plunder are the publishers (in the music business at least.) Have you seen the contracts new artists end up having to sign?
I know...RTFA, it's software publishers not music.
You mean ccommon place enough to already be in Wal-Mart? I mean this place is usually far behind technology, and they are the largest retailer in the US. Actually, many HDTV products are available there with 17" LCDs on their website going for around $299.
I have a used 21 inch trinitron.
Something like 2000x pixels wide.
That's got 1080 I/P beat hands down. Gamers on the PC LOVE HD. For those who can afford the video cards we already have it too. I'm talking $100 video cards. 1200x pixels at framerates of 30FPS+ (not with all the options turned to max for gfx in the games though.)
So, if you have a PC, and you have $175 laying about ($100 for a video card and $75 for a used CRT) you can get better than HD quality for your games.
Fightening handle there Penis Cleaver.
/.
The end of the (American) world is coming you know.
The evidence:
Nuclear poliferation.
Texans in space.
Cyber attacks against the USA
Hackers using Google for evil
Global warming causing mass extinctions
The fall of men from the majority of online gamers.
The end of the world brought to you courtsey of
At least we can all play some comfort games in our final hours.
Ghost Recon (PC)
- my first somewhat realistic FPS shooter. With mods you get all sorts of goodies like smoke grenades, HE mortars, Smoke mortars, and about every man portable weapon system you can imagine.
Quake
- my first FPS INFANTRY shooter. Quite twitch.
Descent
- True 3D flight in zero G and zero atmo. Love it.
Star/Warcraft
- Great RTS, great stories. Great cutscenes.
Galatic Empire
- Old text based BBS game. Free movement in 2d. Two realms of speed - impulse and warp - Torpedoes, phasers, missiles, mines (in later versions) fighters and armies for planetary warfare. Planetary and Galatic economies. Tradewars without movement limitations.
Battletech MUSH ( I know this makes 6 )
- AWESOME - multiplayer mech wars with B-tech rules all enforced, double blind, all optional rules, tanks, vtols, aerospace, elementals, etc.
The one with the dice liquor and women ( I know... 7 )
- Die one : Kiss, Lick, Bite, touch, tickle, spank
- Die two : neck, lips, feet, genitals, chest/breasts, butt
- Beer keg
- Always refilled shot glass
- Women (well, okay just one woman.)
- Some of the few life experiences one does not share with their spouse (assuming game is not played with spouse.)
Almost make the list:
Tetris
Populous and early CIVs
Battle Chess
Tradewars
That java graphical re-creation of the battletech board game in a turn based format
A few MUDS/MUSHES/MOOS
That star-trek game from way back when... nettrek
Not Even Close:
MMORPGs of every sort
- Level grinds . . . repeatedly camping spawns for loot required for a quest . . . crafting . . . crafting . . . crafting . . . it's like work!
Dude, I feel your paid. Some problem but Homeworld was the game. Apparently a local retailer had sold out all their copies to one person. That person then returned all copies to the store to exchange for something else or gift card or whatever they got back. End result, all the CD kets on HOMEWORLD in that store were sold (or given?) out and anyone who bought the real deal ot stuck with the same CD KEY ALREADY USED problem. I won't name the retailer as I have a business relationship with them that I would like to keep.
Gravitational heating left over from the formation of the planets and radioactive decay both provide for heat in the cores of the planets in our solar system. For alot of detail on this subject you can look here
They don't hide Romulan ships in area 51. Goa'uld ships, on the other hand...
Nope, listen, the name of the company here is VERATTECH. Think VERITECH. They have ZENTRADI ships in area 51.
"As I recall there have been PLENTY of wars well before the US Congress got around to declaring one"
Nope, only "conflicts".
Tell this to all the folks in Europe and the Asian portions of the Pacific. There most defenitely was a great war on well before December 8 1942(42?) It was no mere conflict.
Granted the UNITED STATES (theoreticly) does not enter a state of war without the consent of its legeslative body. But even then ask any soldier or marine who did service in SE Asia in the mid to late 60's and ask them if they did or did not fight a war.
Indeed. Apple is not going to like the fact that some other company is going to sell their technology. Thats what patents are for right? Wait... there is plenty of prior art for cryptography (thats all DRM is, crypto for media, when you're given the right to play the media you are allowed to decrypt it.)
How will it work here? A court says DVD JON stop it, that's apple technology they worked hard to make. A court says APPLE CHILL OUT, DVD JON is going to let other MP3 players play FAIRPLAY files and non-Ipod owners will spend their money on your iTunes store.
I'm sure apple would love to sell more iPods, but then again, they could end up selling more music.
I predict lawsuits myself, the legal department will feel the need to get them going if only to prove to the bosses that they are doing productive work for the company.
Okay, in response to Mister Whirly:
"Attacking on uniformed soldiers of nation A is AN ACT OF war WHEN YOU ARE A UNIFORMED SOLDER OF NATION B,C,D,E or so on."
There. Clarified. Some nations other than the USA do not need congress to declare war BTW. As I recall there have been PLENTY of wars well before the US Congress got around to declaring one. One only needs to think of the most recent big one. It was a war for quite some time before the USA decided to become armed combatants (declare war.) There is a big world outside your borders and it moves without seeking the consent of your Congress.
Fuel cells are still very hot (at least in the reformation process).
Not only the heat, but am I going to have to get my notebook smogged?
Just don't let SONY make these. They will have a rootkit and burst into flames, even when turned off.
Well that's one way of looking at it. At the risk of godwinning myself, that condemns the US colonists, the French, Yugoslav and Soviet resistance to Nazi occupation and various other good guys to the criminal bin. In any case, resistance of this sort is NOT terrorism - terrorism is force against civilians for political purposes.
I reply:
Sometimes one must partake in a criminal action. When your moral compass points you one way and the enviroment(nation) you live in points another you can stand up for what you think is right (Rosa Parks, French partisans, American revolutionaries, etc.) or you can sit back and watch as people you think of as evil/misguided/wrong go unopposed (typical soldier in the army of WWII Germany, guards of internment camps in the USA for those of Asian descent.)
Being CRIMINAL dosen't automaticly mean being wrong. I was being legalistic not moralistic in the 1st post. Now you see the moralistic side of this issue.
I forgot another important one.
War/Star-craft teaches these terrorists the value of clear cutting forests/crystal formations and strip-mining of ore/vespine gas. When their supplies run out do they come up with "alternative energy" like solar or geothermal? Hell no, they attack their neighbors in order to have a go at clear-cutting and strip-mining their homelands.
Time to ban RTS games!
Attacking on uniformed soldiers of nation A is war WHEN YOU ARE A UNIFORMED SOLDER OF NATION B,C,D,E or so on.
Attacking ANYONE when you are not a uniformed member of an armed force of a sovreign nation makes you a criminal (assuming murder/attempted murder is a crime in the place where you do this attacking.)
Attacking any civilian regardless of your status as civilian vs soldier is a crime (again, asumptions about local laws.
So, civilians attack = crime (The Brits thought those colonists were criminals for example, and they were, but they won, so they write the history to look like the good guys..which they may or may not be...that's for a diffrent debate.)
Attack civilians = crime (duh)
Soldiers attack solders = war.
You missed the big one.
MS Flight sim to train kamakazie jihadist. We all know how well that worked. "WTF DOOD, THERES NO MOUSE! WHERE IS F6, I NEED THE CHASE PLANE VIEW TO FLY THIS TUB"
QUOTE:
by prmths (325452) on Fri Sep 29 , '06 12:11 PM (#16249681)
(http://prmths.f00.org/)
Now that it's october 1 [SNIP]
Reply:
Oh my friend, I'm so sorry but it's not, and they have a few more hours left yet to kill you in!
Don't worry about headphones.
/QUOTE
Worry about highly soundproofed automobiles.
To quote my favorite underage sci-fi character:
by EnderWigginsXenocide (852478) on Wed Apr 26, '06 08:59 AM (#15205234)
(http://ladeda.com/)
QUOTE
Look at how many idiot drivers fail to see emergency vehicles with lights and sirens blaring, and tell me that they'll notice loud pipes.
REPLY
In the past few years a popular German auto maker ran a series of commercials where their car was operated on a noise city street. Traffic. Construction. Emergency vehicles. "Cars that go boom"(loud music, if you can call that music.)
The windows go up and complete silence. A hand turns of the gain on the onboard sound system and Bach or Brahms comes pouring out of the TV set. Lovely. Cars marketed by playing up the fact that you are isolated from the driving environment as much as possible. Coming soon will be blinders to go with the ear-plugs. Wait...they are here..see many cars with narrow windows, big pillars, heavy window tinting and "wings" added on that all cause problems for driver visibility.
Add to that many car magazines that cater the "luxury and performance segment" will rate a car LOWER if you are not sufficiently soundproofed, as outside annoyances like Police, Fire, and EMS sires, will seriously fuck up your driving experience when they impinge upon your enjoyment of a 5000000 watt 30 speaker Dolby DTS digital 70.1 surround sound system. [Numerical exadurations intentional]
Anyhow, to the point, auto makers and car enthusiasts are turning their cars into boxes where they can be blind and deaf while motoring about.
When you want quite and blind get yourself a coffin and get out of the fucking car before you put other motorists or pedestrians into their own coffins.
If the car is a sound proof tomb a pair of headsets won't make a bit of diffrence.
New cars still come with tape players?]
I have a damiler/chrystler product with Casette CD and 6 DVD/CD changer in dash (no MP3 support, no MPEG support, no DVD-R or DVD+R support.) Yeah, new machines still come with casettes.
Unfortunately I also have a Ford/Lincoln/Mercury/Jag/LandRover product with a CD changer. This thing has no MP3 or CDR/RW support. No imput jack. No Casette deck. I have to use a FM Modulator to get MP3s to play with this car. Royal pain in the arse.
In California (and other states?) there are provisional ballots. You make a claim regarding your identity and the status of your voter registration. Your vote. Supposedly at some time after voting there is an investegation of some sort to determine the validity of your claim regarding identification and voter registration status.
With estimates of two to fourteen million(depends on who you ask) illegal foreign nationals residing in California I doubt there's the manpower to check all these proviosnal ballots. That's alot of paper to go through in a very short time, with limited staff and funding.
I don't know if it takes only 4 minutes to go through the provisional voting process as I have always had proper ID and paperwork on hand when going to vote.
Up to 200Million from 200? That's BLOATWARE if I've ever seen it.
Microsoft OS used to work on a 8Mhz machine and now will require a 4Ghz machine(4000Mhz) to run well(MS Vista.) That's only a 500x increase. The 1,000,000 time increase here makes that look like a drop in the bucket!
The universe making MS look good! Gotta love it.
Halo also has a "spread shot" weapon. The shotgun. Up cloase multiple projectiles hit for big damage. At medium range the dispersion of the shot makes you more likely to score at least some damage against a target.
Too bad our nukes are going to become unstable as they age. A loss of reliability and predictability of yield. I think we should start looking at making new nukes before it's too late!
How about creative commons liscensed music like that found at podshow.com.
They have a website for these cheap DVDs already.
You're calling building a space elevator trivial? Damn, what do you consider hard?
reply:
FTL travel.
Time travel.
Raising of the dead.
Understanding women.