It makes complete sense. Projection/LED spectacles would overcome all of those issues - the image stays still relative to your head, and you eye can scan them like a regular screen. They are also far easier to build and less medical risk.
I've been playing Sacred, Sacred Underworld and Sacred II recently with a friend as online coop. Definitely worth playing, some things have better depth than Diablo II, other things worse. Diablo II runes were better.
They are massively big and long games, the click and bash gets old after a while though and doesnt help with RSI. That's no different to Diablo II though.
5) It doesnt work - anyone who wants to bypass the filters can use an encypted protocol or VPN
6) Anything actually badly illegal (eg kiddy porn) does not need require filtering. It gets terminated by federal/international police shortly after it is found.
1) Until now, completely mechanical accellerators rarely had unintented accelleration problems. Yes they did get stuck occasionally, but was easy to identify after the incident. That puts the new technologies - software and drive by wire systems - under suspicion.
2) Of the cars that have had unintended acceleration, they's only been able to find a small number (1?) of incidents where evidence of menchanical failure was found.
I agree - recipe's dont use more salt. But we are eating alot less home-cooked food, and even when we do many of the processed ingredients that we buy already have more salt added to suit our taste buds.
Man, how ungratefull can you get. Why dont you go out and develop you own "standard" wireless protocol and see how long it takes you!
The only hardware I've ever had an auto-negotiate issue with is Cisco switches, on many occasions with completely different clients over many years. Everyone else seems to play nice, but Cisco was well known for implementing their own "standard" early.
Personally I think Fat it is more of a texture than a taste. I can feel a greasy residue in my mouth after drinking full fat milk or real butter, versus low fat milk or margarine.
The small size of fat globules is what makes things taste creamy - which is why modern low fat ice cream is getting better, they've been able to substitute other compounds with a small grain size. Any larger and it tastes pastey.
1) Well you can, but the refineries arent geared up for it. Currently alot of long chains get cracked into smaller hydrocarbons because that's what the market wants. This ratio could be changed, but only within the capacity of the plant.
We'll all see how it pans out, but Valve have promised to release a patch that allows for permanent offline mode in the even that the Steam servers are ever disbanded.
Or you could download the pirated version. It's not an offence if you already own the license.
Not exactlty true, you just have a have a valid ClientRegistry.blob. When you start steam during an outage it can give you the choice to go offline.
Unfortunately some types of the server failures (or updates) leave the blob in an invalid state, and then you're stuffed. I've experienced it before myself and i agree it sucks.
I've experienced that issue once before (several years ago) - my steam client was left in a state where I couldnt play offline.
Since then I tend to keep offline by default more often, and go back online when I play multiplayer, buy a new game, or have the free time to just do updates. This works very well.
I was very pissed off at the time, but since then I've grown to like Steam as one of the best DRM and delivery playforms around. The generally lower prices, free weekends, dramatic discounts, and the ability to take my games anywhere makes up for the occasional offline issue.
The only think I dont like is when other third party Steam games include their own DRM too, eg Windows Live for Games.
What I've read so far is that it doesnt apply to sampling individual pixels from an existing digital image. That is the part everyone is getting stuck on.
You have to take samples that have been biased/affected by all of the surrounding data - like taking an image through a very blurry lens. Because every sample includes redundant overlapping data (that would otherwise be treated as artifacts or noise), you can back-calculate those intervening spaces with very good confidence.
I find that the drinking rate required to maintain a level (eg if you're trying to stay under the limit, but equally if you've just trying to maintain that buzz) is too slow to be comfortable and you end up standing around for 1/2 hour without a drink in your hand.
If this reduces the recovery time, you could drink every 30/40 minutes instead of once per hour, and maintain a level. Better for my hangover, not so great for my pocket.
Eating in general will help with hangovers, mostly the nausea part. Plus if you can afford a good quality piece of meat, chances are you're buying not drinking cheap vodka and cheap beer, both of which contain alot of impurities/preservatives that cause hangover.
I'm not knocking your strategy though, if you can avaid a hangover then by all means dont change.
Because unlike nuclear, solar is a system that can be deployed on decentralised on many homes. Expect most poeple dont stay in the one home for 20+ years, so it's very hard to justify the investment.
If they can get the costs down, more poeple will buy this, just like solar how water and insulation. Not to mention rural/remote and 3rd world installations. The potential market for small systems is huge.
I think it's completely fair. If game producers can sue users when they play games they don't own, then user can sue game producers when they cant play games they do own.
Fallout 3 from Bethesda had Windows Live for Games, which is the biggest pile of smouldering DRM turd I have ever been unfortunate enough to experience.
My ISP likes to rate limit people (i.e. drop packets) during peak times, and this entirely killed Steam/Windows Live logins. Steam behaves itself 99% of the time offline, but Windows Live was shit - I had to wait several days before I could actually create my initial account. There was an offline function after initial setup, but it was not always reliable (eg if you had a network connection, but didnt want to use it).
Oh, and even worse - if at any time Windows Live for games decides that an update is available, you cannot skip it whatsoever and cannot play YOUR GAMES THAT YOU OWN at all until it has performed the update. So you get a sniff of network access somewhere (airport wifi) and there's an update available that you dont get to finish too bad, you cannot play your games anymore.
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It makes complete sense. Projection/LED spectacles would overcome all of those issues - the image stays still relative to your head, and you eye can scan them like a regular screen. They are also far easier to build and less medical risk.
Put it on the roof of your mouth - you can still hold your tongue there whilst you open your mouth to breath. Doesnt help with talking though.
I've been playing Sacred, Sacred Underworld and Sacred II recently with a friend as online coop. Definitely worth playing, some things have better depth than Diablo II, other things worse. Diablo II runes were better.
They are massively big and long games, the click and bash gets old after a while though and doesnt help with RSI. That's no different to Diablo II though.
All good reasons but I think the best ones are:
5) It doesnt work - anyone who wants to bypass the filters can use an encypted protocol or VPN
6) Anything actually badly illegal (eg kiddy porn) does not need require filtering. It gets terminated by federal/international police shortly after it is found.
No way an ISP would block it, they'd lose 90% of their customers.
I guess two issues:
1) Until now, completely mechanical accellerators rarely had unintented accelleration problems. Yes they did get stuck occasionally, but was easy to identify after the incident. That puts the new technologies - software and drive by wire systems - under suspicion.
2) Of the cars that have had unintended acceleration, they's only been able to find a small number (1?) of incidents where evidence of menchanical failure was found.
I agree - recipe's dont use more salt. But we are eating alot less home-cooked food, and even when we do many of the processed ingredients that we buy already have more salt added to suit our taste buds.
Probably not pork though...
Man, how ungratefull can you get. Why dont you go out and develop you own "standard" wireless protocol and see how long it takes you!
The only hardware I've ever had an auto-negotiate issue with is Cisco switches, on many occasions with completely different clients over many years. Everyone else seems to play nice, but Cisco was well known for implementing their own "standard" early.
Personally I think Fat it is more of a texture than a taste. I can feel a greasy residue in my mouth after drinking full fat milk or real butter, versus low fat milk or margarine.
The small size of fat globules is what makes things taste creamy - which is why modern low fat ice cream is getting better, they've been able to substitute other compounds with a small grain size. Any larger and it tastes pastey.
1) Well you can, but the refineries arent geared up for it. Currently alot of long chains get cracked into smaller hydrocarbons because that's what the market wants. This ratio could be changed, but only within the capacity of the plant.
We'll all see how it pans out, but Valve have promised to release a patch that allows for permanent offline mode in the even that the Steam servers are ever disbanded.
Or you could download the pirated version. It's not an offence if you already own the license.
Not exactlty true, you just have a have a valid ClientRegistry.blob. When you start steam during an outage it can give you the choice to go offline.
Unfortunately some types of the server failures (or updates) leave the blob in an invalid state, and then you're stuffed. I've experienced it before myself and i agree it sucks.
I've experienced that issue once before (several years ago) - my steam client was left in a state where I couldnt play offline.
Since then I tend to keep offline by default more often, and go back online when I play multiplayer, buy a new game, or have the free time to just do updates. This works very well.
I was very pissed off at the time, but since then I've grown to like Steam as one of the best DRM and delivery playforms around. The generally lower prices, free weekends, dramatic discounts, and the ability to take my games anywhere makes up for the occasional offline issue.
The only think I dont like is when other third party Steam games include their own DRM too, eg Windows Live for Games.
Game consoles would be succeptible too.
What I've read so far is that it doesnt apply to sampling individual pixels from an existing digital image. That is the part everyone is getting stuck on.
You have to take samples that have been biased/affected by all of the surrounding data - like taking an image through a very blurry lens. Because every sample includes redundant overlapping data (that would otherwise be treated as artifacts or noise), you can back-calculate those intervening spaces with very good confidence.
I find that the drinking rate required to maintain a level (eg if you're trying to stay under the limit, but equally if you've just trying to maintain that buzz) is too slow to be comfortable and you end up standing around for 1/2 hour without a drink in your hand.
If this reduces the recovery time, you could drink every 30/40 minutes instead of once per hour, and maintain a level. Better for my hangover, not so great for my pocket.
Eating in general will help with hangovers, mostly the nausea part. Plus if you can afford a good quality piece of meat, chances are you're buying not drinking cheap vodka and cheap beer, both of which contain alot of impurities/preservatives that cause hangover.
I'm not knocking your strategy though, if you can avaid a hangover then by all means dont change.
Because unlike nuclear, solar is a system that can be deployed on decentralised on many homes. Expect most poeple dont stay in the one home for 20+ years, so it's very hard to justify the investment.
If they can get the costs down, more poeple will buy this, just like solar how water and insulation. Not to mention rural/remote and 3rd world installations. The potential market for small systems is huge.
I think it's completely fair. If game producers can sue users when they play games they don't own, then user can sue game producers when they cant play games they do own.
Fair is Fair.
If game producers can sue users when they play games they don't own, then user can sue game producers when they cant play games they do own.
If they want to sell software as a service and use trophies to boost first sale value, it better freaking work whenever people want to use it.
RC model planes are *very* manouverable, and and a very small target to hit with a missile. It wont be easy.
Fallout 3 from Bethesda had Windows Live for Games, which is the biggest pile of smouldering DRM turd I have ever been unfortunate enough to experience.
My ISP likes to rate limit people (i.e. drop packets) during peak times, and this entirely killed Steam/Windows Live logins. Steam behaves itself 99% of the time offline, but Windows Live was shit - I had to wait several days before I could actually create my initial account. There was an offline function after initial setup, but it was not always reliable (eg if you had a network connection, but didnt want to use it).
Oh, and even worse - if at any time Windows Live for games decides that an update is available, you cannot skip it whatsoever and cannot play YOUR GAMES THAT YOU OWN at all until it has performed the update. So you get a sniff of network access somewhere (airport wifi) and there's an update available that you dont get to finish too bad, you cannot play your games anymore.
That's what I was thinking too. Still non trivial as the stream may be encoded, but better than trying to hack the saving code.
RJ45 is ony a connector, not am protocol. Even ethernet is not a protocol, it's a MAC scheme.
You still need a TCP/IP stack to communicate, and that takes up alot more code space and CPU on the device.