Any hill that is steep enough to warrant placement of a ramp in the scenario that a car would be braking anyway (no net loss to the driver), would be a severe detriment to any vehicle attempting to climb said hill. I can imagine a few places in the United States where placement of these ramps could be beneficial if placed only on the righthand side of a downward slope. Many of the streets in San Francisco and Austin, as they are fairly hilly areas for instance. Also, these cities don't face the obstacles of snow plows or salt on the roads.
You don't have to be using the cell phone for the cell phone to be used to monitor traffic. There is no hypocrasy here as nobody is promoting talking on cell phones while in traffic. Also, with monitoring such a large number of signals, I find it hard to believe they will be able to simultaneously figure out who is speeding. That would require multiple triangulations on each signal, requiring a much larger infrastructure. We can put away our fears of Big Brother for the moment.
I currently have a subscription to Planetside and a majority of the problems discussed have been long solved. I experience zero lag, and rarely ever find a bug (I've fallen through the terrain once in 3 months). Back when I was a beta tester for the game, things were a different story. I chose not to buy the game when it went retail becaused IMO they were selling people a beta.
The problem with Planetside is two fold. Small playerbase has caused a majority of the game world to be abandoned for most of the time. The core combat expansion created new content and new areas to explore, but did not provide an increased playerbase to populate those areas. The second problem is SOE has not attempted to promote the game to keep an influx of new players coming in.
Rumor has it that SOE is going to offer Planetside through Steam, and if even 10% of Steam users try Planetside, and half of those users subscribe to Planetside, it will double to triple the current playerbase. Quite possibly revitalizing the Planetside community.
You may have only edited the registry 5 times in your career, I on the other hand end up scanning the registry for spyware and malware every time I do a computer check up. Your windows box must either never be connected to the internet or you live with spyware and are happy about it.
Mod parent up! That went beyond the realm of funny and entered the realm of metaphysics. If you'll excuse me, I need to go and refill my coffee that I emptied on my flatscreen.
I went to high school in the same district as Carl Hayden circa 1995-1999. During these four years there were numerous riots and gang fights that shut my school (Trevor G. Browne) and Carl Hayden down. Carl Hayden likes smack dab in the middle of an industrial district in downtown Phoenix.
These kids laid the smack down on MIT. Their school distric is so underfunded its unbelievable that they even had a robotics program. They are the ONLY school in the distric to offer a marine biology program and thus are considered a "MAGNET" school. Absolutely unbelievable... All of these kids deserve scholarships.
Like the article says, these guys should be paid, not sued. Hopefully they aren't worth anything to sue over. If there is no lawsuit over this I'm going to go and buy the game myself for the multiplayer.
That is one of the largest limiting factors for many people. When I got my first apartment I had to wait a few months for my income to stabilize to be able to afford the $50 a month for high speed as well as $40 a month for the 'basic' digital cable. Regular cable was only $15 a month, however you had to get the 'basic' digital package for $40 a month if you wanted high speed. A service that I'd gladly pay $40 a month for turned into a $90+taxes ($105) a month service.
It may not have worked on mythbusters but we're talking about ancient greeks who had mass quantities of free slave labor and a lot of time on their hands.
On a sidnote: I've become a high tech ninja chef by googling the name of what I want to cook with the ingredients I have available. Usually several recipes will come up and I find one that I can make do with. It has come in handy when I'm missing one key ingredient in a recipe and need to know what I can do to make it passable as fine cuisine.
I think the authors main concern is that innovations in 3D gaming are suffering the same problems as modern suburban 'planning'. Cookie cutter syndrome, sticking with what has worked before, and do it on a mass scale. A lot of suburbanites have looked towards video games as a means of breaking away from familiarity (not to be confused with escaping reality). They grew up in a place where everything was pretty much the same as the next place and video games offered something stimulating. Unfortunately, video game designers are following suit with super contractors and homogenizing with what has worked for them in the past rather than braving new frontiers.
The most common complaints from teenagers in suburban areas is "boredom". They feel far removed from society and lack places to gather and things to interest them because of suburban planning. The same is being seen in video game design. Its causing gamers the same disjointed feeling. We're screaming, "We're bored, take us somewhere else!"
If this follows the model, pretty soon gamers will be committing suicide at an alarming rate and gaming while intoxicated to impress other gamers...
I believe boxen is a bastardization of the plural of boxes. You can have one ox or many oxen so it stands to reason that you can have one box or many boxen. Or doesn't stand to reason because they don't have similar origins. Whatever. I like saying xboxen.
You are absolutely right, his opinions are not fact. That being said, he is right for all the wrong reasons, and still wrong once given the right reasons. Yes Maxtors have a reputation of being bad drives. That being said, every drive I have ever bought has been a Maxtor and I've never had a failure. It could be that the most popular line of Maxtors suffer from low quality components, and the high end Maxtors (the type I typically buy) are much higher grade. So whereas the majority of Maxtors do indeed suck, it does not necessarily mean I myself would ever have a problem with one.
This is all theory and hyperbole but it would be akin to saying, "A majority of of Intel chips are Celerons and Celerons suck, therefore all Intel chips suck." Bad logic, but very compelling to emotions. People who are critical thinkers would see this flaw immediately. In fact, most critical thinkers would come to the conclusion that Intel sucks on its own merit.;)
I'm just wondering why this wasn't on Slashdots front page the day after the original story. I tried using PyMusique immediately and was told that my "purchase could not be made at this time"
I still have six free songs waiting for me on iTunes... just waiting for a DRM free option to become available.
My problem with current RPGS are two fold. First and foremost is that I hate long cinematic sequences. I haven't seen one that is interesting enough to hold my attention yet (not a.d.d.). Perhaps if they had some sort of interaction I'd be more satisfied. Secondly long periods of time between save points makes me put a game on the backburner. Real life interrupts more often now that I am an adult. I really do love RPG's, but make them playable without having to sit down for 3+ hours at a time!
Case in point, the last RPG I played was Knights of the Old Republic and being interrupted never set me back more than 5 minutes. Excellent game, short cut scenes, dynamic storyline. What more could I ask for? Well, perhaps Cid and an Airship.
Parent poster is exactly right. If its not AOL it could be anybody. When you are using AIM you are flinging your messages across the net without any say as to who's hardware is relaying your information. If you are that worried about privacy, AOL is the least of your concerns.
This has serious potential to be used in terraforming of other worlds as well as our own. The main issue I can see here is that by destroying coral reefs we're not only changing currents, increasing errosion, and decimating aquatic ecologies, but also changing land weather patterns in a drastic way.
The answer is Archer was estimating and the actual time to Neptune and Back is under 6 minutes. Remember, it's pretty damn hard to turn a vehicle that is travelling at warp speed. They'd have to disengage, turn, and replot a new course for the return trip.
Actual time at 4.5 warp would be well under six minutes. Travelling at 4.5 warp for 4 days would cover much more distance than our little '6 minute' scenario would lead anyone to believe.
No I'm not a star trek geek, I just like playing devils advocate.
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Now with genuine people personality! I'm so depressed.
Any hill that is steep enough to warrant placement of a ramp in the scenario that a car would be braking anyway (no net loss to the driver), would be a severe detriment to any vehicle attempting to climb said hill. I can imagine a few places in the United States where placement of these ramps could be beneficial if placed only on the righthand side of a downward slope. Many of the streets in San Francisco and Austin, as they are fairly hilly areas for instance. Also, these cities don't face the obstacles of snow plows or salt on the roads.
You don't have to be using the cell phone for the cell phone to be used to monitor traffic. There is no hypocrasy here as nobody is promoting talking on cell phones while in traffic. Also, with monitoring such a large number of signals, I find it hard to believe they will be able to simultaneously figure out who is speeding. That would require multiple triangulations on each signal, requiring a much larger infrastructure. We can put away our fears of Big Brother for the moment.
I currently have a subscription to Planetside and a majority of the problems discussed have been long solved. I experience zero lag, and rarely ever find a bug (I've fallen through the terrain once in 3 months). Back when I was a beta tester for the game, things were a different story. I chose not to buy the game when it went retail becaused IMO they were selling people a beta.
The problem with Planetside is two fold. Small playerbase has caused a majority of the game world to be abandoned for most of the time. The core combat expansion created new content and new areas to explore, but did not provide an increased playerbase to populate those areas. The second problem is SOE has not attempted to promote the game to keep an influx of new players coming in.
Rumor has it that SOE is going to offer Planetside through Steam, and if even 10% of Steam users try Planetside, and half of those users subscribe to Planetside, it will double to triple the current playerbase. Quite possibly revitalizing the Planetside community.
You may have only edited the registry 5 times in your career, I on the other hand end up scanning the registry for spyware and malware every time I do a computer check up. Your windows box must either never be connected to the internet or you live with spyware and are happy about it.
Steel Pennys were minted in 1943, their core is steel and they are coated with zinc.
I am still wondering how Evil Genius is original or innovative. At least Dungeon Keeper offered multiplayer.
Mod parent up! That went beyond the realm of funny and entered the realm of metaphysics. If you'll excuse me, I need to go and refill my coffee that I emptied on my flatscreen.
I went to high school in the same district as Carl Hayden circa 1995-1999. During these four years there were numerous riots and gang fights that shut my school (Trevor G. Browne) and Carl Hayden down. Carl Hayden likes smack dab in the middle of an industrial district in downtown Phoenix.
These kids laid the smack down on MIT. Their school distric is so underfunded its unbelievable that they even had a robotics program. They are the ONLY school in the distric to offer a marine biology program and thus are considered a "MAGNET" school. Absolutely unbelievable... All of these kids deserve scholarships.
Like the article says, these guys should be paid, not sued. Hopefully they aren't worth anything to sue over. If there is no lawsuit over this I'm going to go and buy the game myself for the multiplayer.
Err... that isn't blood. Time to get out the medical dictionary and learn to distinguish different bodily proteins.
That is one of the largest limiting factors for many people. When I got my first apartment I had to wait a few months for my income to stabilize to be able to afford the $50 a month for high speed as well as $40 a month for the 'basic' digital cable. Regular cable was only $15 a month, however you had to get the 'basic' digital package for $40 a month if you wanted high speed. A service that I'd gladly pay $40 a month for turned into a $90+taxes ($105) a month service.
It may not have worked on mythbusters but we're talking about ancient greeks who had mass quantities of free slave labor and a lot of time on their hands.
On a sidnote: I've become a high tech ninja chef by googling the name of what I want to cook with the ingredients I have available. Usually several recipes will come up and I find one that I can make do with. It has come in handy when I'm missing one key ingredient in a recipe and need to know what I can do to make it passable as fine cuisine.
I think the authors main concern is that innovations in 3D gaming are suffering the same problems as modern suburban 'planning'. Cookie cutter syndrome, sticking with what has worked before, and do it on a mass scale. A lot of suburbanites have looked towards video games as a means of breaking away from familiarity (not to be confused with escaping reality). They grew up in a place where everything was pretty much the same as the next place and video games offered something stimulating. Unfortunately, video game designers are following suit with super contractors and homogenizing with what has worked for them in the past rather than braving new frontiers.
The most common complaints from teenagers in suburban areas is "boredom". They feel far removed from society and lack places to gather and things to interest them because of suburban planning. The same is being seen in video game design. Its causing gamers the same disjointed feeling. We're screaming, "We're bored, take us somewhere else!"
If this follows the model, pretty soon gamers will be committing suicide at an alarming rate and gaming while intoxicated to impress other gamers...
...wait a second...
I believe boxen is a bastardization of the plural of boxes. You can have one ox or many oxen so it stands to reason that you can have one box or many boxen. Or doesn't stand to reason because they don't have similar origins. Whatever. I like saying xboxen.
I missed the punchline, care to explain? Was it an episode I missed?
You are absolutely right, his opinions are not fact. That being said, he is right for all the wrong reasons, and still wrong once given the right reasons. Yes Maxtors have a reputation of being bad drives. That being said, every drive I have ever bought has been a Maxtor and I've never had a failure. It could be that the most popular line of Maxtors suffer from low quality components, and the high end Maxtors (the type I typically buy) are much higher grade. So whereas the majority of Maxtors do indeed suck, it does not necessarily mean I myself would ever have a problem with one. ;)
This is all theory and hyperbole but it would be akin to saying, "A majority of of Intel chips are Celerons and Celerons suck, therefore all Intel chips suck." Bad logic, but very compelling to emotions. People who are critical thinkers would see this flaw immediately. In fact, most critical thinkers would come to the conclusion that Intel sucks on its own merit.
I'm just wondering why this wasn't on Slashdots front page the day after the original story. I tried using PyMusique immediately and was told that my "purchase could not be made at this time" I still have six free songs waiting for me on iTunes... just waiting for a DRM free option to become available.
My problem with current RPGS are two fold. First and foremost is that I hate long cinematic sequences. I haven't seen one that is interesting enough to hold my attention yet (not a.d.d.). Perhaps if they had some sort of interaction I'd be more satisfied. Secondly long periods of time between save points makes me put a game on the backburner. Real life interrupts more often now that I am an adult. I really do love RPG's, but make them playable without having to sit down for 3+ hours at a time!
Case in point, the last RPG I played was Knights of the Old Republic and being interrupted never set me back more than 5 minutes. Excellent game, short cut scenes, dynamic storyline. What more could I ask for? Well, perhaps Cid and an Airship.
Parent poster is exactly right. If its not AOL it could be anybody. When you are using AIM you are flinging your messages across the net without any say as to who's hardware is relaying your information. If you are that worried about privacy, AOL is the least of your concerns.
This has serious potential to be used in terraforming of other worlds as well as our own. The main issue I can see here is that by destroying coral reefs we're not only changing currents, increasing errosion, and decimating aquatic ecologies, but also changing land weather patterns in a drastic way.
Isn't ozone O3?
I knew I could be proud of my German heritage for something!
The answer is Archer was estimating and the actual time to Neptune and Back is under 6 minutes. Remember, it's pretty damn hard to turn a vehicle that is travelling at warp speed. They'd have to disengage, turn, and replot a new course for the return trip.
Actual time at 4.5 warp would be well under six minutes. Travelling at 4.5 warp for 4 days would cover much more distance than our little '6 minute' scenario would lead anyone to believe.
No I'm not a star trek geek, I just like playing devils advocate.