PlanetSide has virtually no griefing. The system punishes it fairly well and the other players even more so. The main annoyances in PS are hackers and sometimes low populations.
Plus, it has no player trade (no virtual currency to buy, nothing to farm), it is pure PvP, shallow power curve (noobs can go toe to to with vets), fosters team play (but does not require it), has virtually no grinding, the battles can be 130 vs. 130 vs. 130 on maps that are several Km square (they make Battlefield 1942 maps look tiny).
Is this the tallest in the same way the Ptronas(sp?) towers were "taller" than the Sears Tower? Eg. higher decorative spire as opposed to higher usable space.
i've rewritten the summary without the awful passive voice.
"The avatar known as Buzz Erik Lightyear set a new world record price paid for virtual property. Buzz won the space station Crystal Palace in the auction system of the Entropia Universe for the incredible amount of $330,000. The Entropia community regards Buzz as one of the best crafters in the game. They've even made Chuck Norris Facts like jokes about what he can achieve."
Subby, start the sentence with who or what is doing the action. The original version was 88 words. Mine is 65. Proper word order reduces grammatical gymnastics. It's also more HONEST. Watch the news for speeches where politicians use passive voice to distance themselves from their actions. "Measures have been taken", "mistakes were made". As if these things happened by themselves.
Dismiss me as a grammar nazi if you like. Willful ignorance is certainly easier than constructing direct and concise sentences. Most 6th graders can get words in the correct order. Not sure what subby's problem is.
And yes, i'm bored. It's the last day of the work year before a 4 day weekend. And no, i won't be reading the excuses you make for him.
A survey of how and why you'd prefer to do would prolly indicate that people would rather be hit by lightning than blown up by terrorist even if the net result (death) is the same. Plus there is something worse about being killed to benefit someone else's cause, or by someone who meant you ill... and worse yet when it could have been prevented by some policy or procedure. Misguided or not, that's the case.
That said, i'd rather see more effort on killing/capturing these people before they get to us and ending the problems that inspire them to want to kill us.
A survey of how and why you'd prefer to do would prolly indicate that people would rather be hit by lightning than blown up by terrorist even if the net result (death) is the same. Plus there is something worse about being killed to benefit someone else's cause, or by someone who meant you ill... and worse yet when it could have been prevented by some policy or procedure.
That said, i'd rather see more effort on killing these people before they get to us and ending the problems that inspire them to want to kill us.
Bruce Schneier knows Alice and Bob's shared secret.
Most people use passwords. Some people use passphrases. Bruce Schneier uses an epic passpoem, detailing the life and works of seven mythical Norse heroes.
Bruce Schneier's secure handshake is so strong, you won't be able to exchange keys with anyone else for days.
Bruce Schneier writes his books and essays by generating random alphanumeric text of an appropriate length and then decrypting it.
Bruce Schneier knows the state of schroedinger's cat
If we built a Dyson sphere around Bruce Schneier and captured all of his energy for 2 months, without any loss, we could power an ideal computer running at 3.2 degrees K to count up to 2^256. This strongly implies that not only can Bruce Schneier brute-force attack 256-bit keys, but that he is built of something other than matter and occupies something other than space.
When Bruce Schneier observes a quantum particle, it remains in the same state until he has finished observing it.
Though a superhero, Bruce Schneier disdanes the use of a mask or secret identity as 'security through obscurity'.
It's time to start seriously chipping away at Adobe's stranglehold on multimedia. Or at least give it some serious competition that will inspire them to work harder.
As someone else has mentioned, this might be HTML 5's time to step up.
They are the fringe of/. opinion. Any defense of overthrowing Saddam, or anything contrary to Chomsky are usually met with -5 Troll. i've seen it and i've been on the receiving end of it. Hell, even a defense of Microsoft is "trolling".
Repercussions can be relative. As can courage. i wasn't equating these guys to Ghandi. Nice leap in logic, though.
Modding as censorship is pretty common around here.
So they are making the drives faster in the sense that there are fewer sectors, so it's easier to get to a city than to a particular block of a city. They are also keeping the address space small. And they are wasting space because most of the blocks of the city have huge yards and a tiny house.
Actually that first sentence should be a question. Does having bigger sectors make the drive appear to be faster?
Ah, so it's saying, "Turn left on Evergreen... it's on that block". And the monstrous estate is from Elm to Fern at State. As opposed to GEOCOORD 32'57"(bunchOfDigits) by 32'57"(more digits).
Got it.
With the 1024 byte example, could the address just be "from bit X to bit X+1023"? i guess that too would be too much. All those tiny.dlls and.inis would take more space to define than they actually take.
So why have the sectors at all? Bigger sectors seem to incur more waste, though with HDDs growing at the rate they do it might not matter. But if there was no sectoring, then a file could take as much space, and only as much space as it actually needs. The 1024 byte file could then take 1024 bytes.
i'm not saying sectors aren't needed, i just don't understand why they exist in the first place.
i was in that camp too until i learned more about how they made the movie. i saw it was blown away. i found the story to be inane, but the rest of it was nothing short of orgasmic to me. It's the shortest 2h and 40m of your life. i even dug the performances. Zoe blew me away.
Shit, here i am with no mod points. You and BadAnalogyGuy have both made courageous and insightful posts in this thread. i hope the partisans don't censor you with their points.
Note: i think the armed guys were mercenaries. That was a bit vague.
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Huh?
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/
PlanetSide has virtually no griefing. The system punishes it fairly well and the other players even more so. The main annoyances in PS are hackers and sometimes low populations.
Plus, it has no player trade (no virtual currency to buy, nothing to farm), it is pure PvP, shallow power curve (noobs can go toe to to with vets), fosters team play (but does not require it), has virtually no grinding, the battles can be 130 vs. 130 vs. 130 on maps that are several Km square (they make Battlefield 1942 maps look tiny).
i wonder, is that the same Band of Brothers from PlanetSide? SOE bitch slapped them for hacking PlanetSide.
And let's not forget "well regulated".
Is this the tallest in the same way the Ptronas(sp?) towers were "taller" than the Sears Tower? Eg. higher decorative spire as opposed to higher usable space.
And reach around.
i've rewritten the summary without the awful passive voice.
"The avatar known as Buzz Erik Lightyear set a new world record price paid for virtual property. Buzz won the space station Crystal Palace in the auction system of the Entropia Universe for the incredible amount of $330,000. The Entropia community regards Buzz as one of the best crafters in the game. They've even made Chuck Norris Facts like jokes about what he can achieve."
Subby, start the sentence with who or what is doing the action. The original version was 88 words. Mine is 65. Proper word order reduces grammatical gymnastics. It's also more HONEST. Watch the news for speeches where politicians use passive voice to distance themselves from their actions. "Measures have been taken", "mistakes were made". As if these things happened by themselves.
Dismiss me as a grammar nazi if you like. Willful ignorance is certainly easier than constructing direct and concise sentences. Most 6th graders can get words in the correct order. Not sure what subby's problem is.
And yes, i'm bored. It's the last day of the work year before a 4 day weekend. And no, i won't be reading the excuses you make for him.
http://www.entropiaforum.com/forums/off-topic/91003-buzz-erik-lightyear-facts.html
Enjoy
Batman.
A survey of how and why you'd prefer to do would prolly indicate that people would rather be hit by lightning than blown up by terrorist even if the net result (death) is the same. Plus there is something worse about being killed to benefit someone else's cause, or by someone who meant you ill... and worse yet when it could have been prevented by some policy or procedure. Misguided or not, that's the case.
That said, i'd rather see more effort on killing/capturing these people before they get to us and ending the problems that inspire them to want to kill us.
People care how/why they die.
A survey of how and why you'd prefer to do would prolly indicate that people would rather be hit by lightning than blown up by terrorist even if the net result (death) is the same. Plus there is something worse about being killed to benefit someone else's cause, or by someone who meant you ill... and worse yet when it could have been prevented by some policy or procedure.
That said, i'd rather see more effort on killing these people before they get to us and ending the problems that inspire them to want to kill us.
Bruce Schneier knows Alice and Bob's shared secret.
Most people use passwords. Some people use passphrases. Bruce Schneier uses an epic passpoem, detailing the life and works of seven mythical Norse heroes.
Bruce Schneier's secure handshake is so strong, you won't be able to exchange keys with anyone else for days.
Bruce Schneier once decrypted a box of AlphaBits.
Vs lbh nfxrq Oehpr Fpuarvre gb qrpelcg guvf, ur'q pehfu lbhe fxhyy jvgu uvf ynhtu.
Bruce Schneier writes his books and essays by generating random alphanumeric text of an appropriate length and then decrypting it.
Bruce Schneier knows the state of schroedinger's cat
If we built a Dyson sphere around Bruce Schneier and captured all of his energy for 2 months, without any loss, we could power an ideal computer running at 3.2 degrees K to count up to 2^256. This strongly implies that not only can Bruce Schneier brute-force attack 256-bit keys, but that he is built of something other than matter and occupies something other than space.
When Bruce Schneier observes a quantum particle, it remains in the same state until he has finished observing it.
Though a superhero, Bruce Schneier disdanes the use of a mask or secret identity as 'security through obscurity'.
It's time to start seriously chipping away at Adobe's stranglehold on multimedia. Or at least give it some serious competition that will inspire them to work harder.
As someone else has mentioned, this might be HTML 5's time to step up.
The replies to my question here exemplify /. at its best. Informative answers with no snark. Thanks to everyone who replied. i learned quite a bit.
You're a brave, hairy footed man for daring to challenge *nix and OSX on /.! i wish i had points for you.
Siemans not Semens.
Ah, so it's a mechanical thing. We don't know what is a 1 or a 0 until we've seen both. We also need to know how wide each should be. Neat!
Thanks!
They are the fringe of /. opinion. Any defense of overthrowing Saddam, or anything contrary to Chomsky are usually met with -5 Troll. i've seen it and i've been on the receiving end of it. Hell, even a defense of Microsoft is "trolling".
Repercussions can be relative. As can courage. i wasn't equating these guys to Ghandi. Nice leap in logic, though.
Modding as censorship is pretty common around here.
What does sync mean in this context?
So they are making the drives faster in the sense that there are fewer sectors, so it's easier to get to a city than to a particular block of a city. They are also keeping the address space small. And they are wasting space because most of the blocks of the city have huge yards and a tiny house.
Actually that first sentence should be a question. Does having bigger sectors make the drive appear to be faster?
Fascinating.
Ah, so it's saying, "Turn left on Evergreen... it's on that block". And the monstrous estate is from Elm to Fern at State. As opposed to GEOCOORD 32'57"(bunchOfDigits) by 32'57"(more digits).
Got it.
With the 1024 byte example, could the address just be "from bit X to bit X+1023"? i guess that too would be too much. All those tiny .dlls and .inis would take more space to define than they actually take.
Thanks!
+1 Informative.
So why have the sectors at all? Bigger sectors seem to incur more waste, though with HDDs growing at the rate they do it might not matter. But if there was no sectoring, then a file could take as much space, and only as much space as it actually needs. The 1024 byte file could then take 1024 bytes.
i'm not saying sectors aren't needed, i just don't understand why they exist in the first place.
It is it some kind of addressing thing?
i'm asking because i don't know, not to troll.
What is their purpose? Does the purpose still matter?
i was in that camp too until i learned more about how they made the movie. i saw it was blown away. i found the story to be inane, but the rest of it was nothing short of orgasmic to me. It's the shortest 2h and 40m of your life. i even dug the performances. Zoe blew me away.
Shit, here i am with no mod points. You and BadAnalogyGuy have both made courageous and insightful posts in this thread. i hope the partisans don't censor you with their points.
Note: i think the armed guys were mercenaries. That was a bit vague.