I haven't played the original, or Warlords Battlecry 3, but Warlords Battlecry 2 seemed really flawed.
The single player campaign was really fun and compelling. But multiplayer, which is what gives RTS's staying power, IMO, was just screwed up. The persistent hero was impossible to balance. There were twelve races - which is two many to balance at all. Cosmetically none of the units looked nearly as good as StarCraft (never mind warcraft 3). Not even any of the heros had as much personality as a single Protoss probe.
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CMY are really "combinations" of R G and B.
This is false. C, Y, and M are different wavelengths of light from R, G, and B. Because the human eye only has receptors for R, G, and B, we can't distinguish between equal quantities of R and G and a single wavelength in between the two, namely Y. In other words, we are able to trick the eye into perceiving a full color spectrum using only three different wavelengths of light.
Mouseover is a horrible indication. All of the examples were not actual links, but just looked like them (javascript on mouseover set the status bar). Maybe in your browser that's disabled and it's reliable, but in most people's it isn't.
The best thing to do is actually copy and paste the urls from the text into your browser. Or type them by hand, but that's a lot more work.
military source goes through review and testing the likes of which is seen in few industries (perhaps medical/lifesupport systems... cant think of any other)
Gambling machines (slot machines, video poker, etc) have similar testing, since if they pay out erroneously, it's Midway (or whoever) who has to eat the loss.
DSP CAN NOT give you the same characteristics as a tube.
Of course, DSPs can only apply mathematical transformations to the signal, whereas tubes impart magical qualities that defy quantitization, such as warmth, openness and bredth of sound stage.
They are called vacuum tubes, but they each actually contain individual fairies, all supplying your music with a limitless supply of fairy dust.
Maybe you should look at Eidola. I think it's been a while since it's been actively developed, but still seems to be roughly what you're talking about.
I have never heard anyone argue that piracy doesn't account for ANY lost revenue, just that it's nowhere near the inflated figures published.
I have heard the argument that in the long run piracy isn't damaging, though, and I agree with it. I wouldn't have bought Visual Studio even if I couldn't have pirated it. I would have made do with something else. But then when my employer asked me what software to buy I would say "I'm used to this free package," instead of "It's not cheap, but Visual Studio is quite good and I know it well."
IIRC, Studio Ghibli had to invoke a minor miracle to prevent Disney from turning movies like Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta into Mickey's Vacation in Laputa
In the 1980's New World Pictures made a horrible english dub of Nasuicaä they called Warriors of the Wind. This experience I believe is what compelled Miyazaki to specify in the deal with Disney that the films must be released unedited, except for language translation. But that was part of the original deal by which Disney attained all international distribution rights for all if Ghibli's films (including Japanese distribution!)
super-sonic muzzle velocity is really common, so that needed be a bigger problem than, say, for an assault rifle. In any event, ear protection would probably be advisable.
Obviously what they should do is list all the problems in order, and refuse to work on the second one until the first one is thorougly solved. They should only hire scientists whose expertise applies to the first problem, and fire them when it's solved, and hire new scientists who are able to solve the second problem. &c.
Even if you could duplicate the functionality in the off-the-shelf components instantaneously, it STILL wouldn't be worth it in most cases.
Why? The more code you write, the more code you have to maintain, the more code you have to debug, and the more code additional programmers who join the project have to learn.
Pretend that he said "C that was optimized by someone who has finite time".
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Testing ISP Censorship
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It is government encouraged censorship though. The laws are such than this kind of private censorship is often the most reasonable (legally) course of action a private entity (ISP) can take.
Besides, so what if it's constitutional, that doesn't make it right.
DSLRs tend to have really long battery lives - like more pictures than you can fit on a microdrive. Since they CAN'T use the LCD as a viewfinder, they don't, and that's what eats most of the battery on 'normal' (non-SLR) digital cameras.
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I haven't played the original, or Warlords Battlecry 3, but Warlords Battlecry 2 seemed really flawed.
The single player campaign was really fun and compelling. But multiplayer, which is what gives RTS's staying power, IMO, was just screwed up. The persistent hero was impossible to balance. There were twelve races - which is two many to balance at all. Cosmetically none of the units looked nearly as good as StarCraft (never mind warcraft 3). Not even any of the heros had as much personality as a single Protoss probe.
oops, you're right. Thank you. Same with Brown.
CMY are really "combinations" of R G and B.
This is false. C, Y, and M are different wavelengths of light from R, G, and B. Because the human eye only has receptors for R, G, and B, we can't distinguish between equal quantities of R and G and a single wavelength in between the two, namely Y. In other words, we are able to trick the eye into perceiving a full color spectrum using only three different wavelengths of light.
oh come on, it's even in the freaking theme song, how could you not remember this with absolute pristine clarity, even while drunk.
Mouseover is a horrible indication. All of the examples were not actual links, but just looked like them (javascript on mouseover set the status bar). Maybe in your browser that's disabled and it's reliable, but in most people's it isn't.
The best thing to do is actually copy and paste the urls from the text into your browser. Or type them by hand, but that's a lot more work.
military source goes through review and testing the likes of which is seen in few industries (perhaps medical/lifesupport systems... cant think of any other)
Gambling machines (slot machines, video poker, etc) have similar testing, since if they pay out erroneously, it's Midway (or whoever) who has to eat the loss.
Of course, they'd work fine too with a regular lens, but that's more expensive and heavier.
This is pretty mcuh exactly what Mr. Charles Ponzi did almost a century earlier, which is why this kind of thing is called a Ponzi scheme.
DSP CAN NOT give you the same characteristics as a tube.
Of course, DSPs can only apply mathematical transformations to the signal, whereas tubes impart magical qualities that defy quantitization, such as warmth, openness and bredth of sound stage.
They are called vacuum tubes, but they each actually contain individual fairies, all supplying your music with a limitless supply of fairy dust.
Maybe you should look at Eidola. I think it's been a while since it's been actively developed, but still seems to be roughly what you're talking about.
IRC is peer to peer.
I have never heard anyone argue that piracy doesn't account for ANY lost revenue, just that it's nowhere near the inflated figures published.
I have heard the argument that in the long run piracy isn't damaging, though, and I agree with it. I wouldn't have bought Visual Studio even if I couldn't have pirated it. I would have made do with something else. But then when my employer asked me what software to buy I would say "I'm used to this free package," instead of "It's not cheap, but Visual Studio is quite good and I know it well."
I've had no problems throwing cds 75m, when there wasn't a lot of wind. I was throwing like a hammer frisbee throw.
The MUNI montly pass allows you free use of BART within the city of San Francisco. This is probably what the parent post was talking about.
we'll just clone the damned thing faster than Redmond copied the Trash basket
.. roughly 10 years?
So it will take
IIRC, Studio Ghibli had to invoke a minor miracle to prevent Disney from turning movies like Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta into Mickey's Vacation in Laputa
In the 1980's New World Pictures made a horrible english dub of Nasuicaä they called Warriors of the Wind. This experience I believe is what compelled Miyazaki to specify in the deal with Disney that the films must be released unedited, except for language translation. But that was part of the original deal by which Disney attained all international distribution rights for all if Ghibli's films (including Japanese distribution!)
Portability IS expensive, and it needs to be prioritized along with all the other features. That is the point that he makes.
super-sonic muzzle velocity is really common, so that needed be a bigger problem than, say, for an assault rifle. In any event, ear protection would probably be advisable.
Here's one.
Oh wait, you said popular console.
Here's another one, and another
Diamond may be really strong and light, but it's brittle instead of flexible, so it's hardly 'ideal for everything'.
Obviously what they should do is list all the problems in order, and refuse to work on the second one until the first one is thorougly solved. They should only hire scientists whose expertise applies to the first problem, and fire them when it's solved, and hire new scientists who are able to solve the second problem. &c.
Even if you could duplicate the functionality in the off-the-shelf components instantaneously, it STILL wouldn't be worth it in most cases.
Why? The more code you write, the more code you have to maintain, the more code you have to debug, and the more code additional programmers who join the project have to learn.
Pretend that he said "C that was optimized by someone who has finite time".
It is government encouraged censorship though. The laws are such than this kind of private censorship is often the most reasonable (legally) course of action a private entity (ISP) can take.
Besides, so what if it's constitutional, that doesn't make it right.
DSLRs tend to have really long battery lives - like more pictures than you can fit on a microdrive. Since they CAN'T use the LCD as a viewfinder, they don't, and that's what eats most of the battery on 'normal' (non-SLR) digital cameras.