This is a site dedicated to getting page views, not providing unbiased news.
As a bonus, this continuing trend of over-hyped drivel gets people reading the articles so they don't sound like an idiot when they concur with the original poster.
Now I might make use of that Y2K shelter I built before the last advertised armageddon. I will remain sheltered and safe as our countries digital infrastructure is brought to its knees, causing widespread havoc and depriving returned college students of their Kazaa fix.
I've been dying to break into the Tang and Deviled Ham stockpiles.
As someone who played Tale 1, for the most part I agree with the parent that the game is poorly paced.
The 2nd telling didn't actually improve much from what I can tell. One of the largest changes, requiring you to build compounds to hold all major structures, (including sculptures, which are voted on by the populace to pass the test) now makes every area look just about the same.. a sea of off-white compounds.
Worse yet, you can only view the contents of one compound at a time, forcing even those with a cable modem and decent graphics card to be reduced to the least denominator.
If the compounds merely established boundaries of an area you've claimed I'd be much more apt to like them. As it is now, they are a magical tarp covering all of Egypt.
I came, I saw, I had better things to do.
Thanks for clarifying that for the jumpy patent bashers. A glimpse of sanity in an otherwise insane, yet surprisingly SNAFU, Slashdot story.
Anyone who took a second to RTFP would realize that they weren't patenting 'online console gaming'.. the description is pretty specific reagrding the technology, actually.
Slashdot: Hype for Nerds, Exaggeration that Matters
it's becoming standard practice to quietly hold onto patents as long as possible, delighting in each new victim that violates them. Then, when the profit margin reaches critical mass, send in the legal hounds.
I'm assuming the available DB of patents is so large and uses a wide range of semantics that doing an effective search with the use of each new (or old, even) technology is pretty tough.
I rarely can tell the difference. In fact, it really only grabs my attention when using nice features that are included by default, such as the search field and tabbed windows.
The time I save on inspecting every site address before I go to it more than makes up for the small learning curve for settings and such.
Last week we were lucky enough to have Peter Stone visit and give a talk on the various projects being worked on at Univ of Texas, including this very traffic simulation. (All in all an excellent talk.. the RoboCup demo was another hit)
He stated that this is the first iteration of this project and that they fully plan to incorporate turning, more variance in vehicle performance, support for legacy vehicles, and unexpected events such as a car breaking down.
He stressed that the system would depend highly on the auto manufacturers making their navigation systems fully compliant, since it's almost a given each will have their own proprietary software interface.
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This is a site dedicated to getting page views, not providing unbiased news. As a bonus, this continuing trend of over-hyped drivel gets people reading the articles so they don't sound like an idiot when they concur with the original poster.
Once Prime Intellect gets a hold of this I want to be invited to all the good parties.
Now I might make use of that Y2K shelter I built before the last advertised armageddon. I will remain sheltered and safe as our countries digital infrastructure is brought to its knees, causing widespread havoc and depriving returned college students of their Kazaa fix. I've been dying to break into the Tang and Deviled Ham stockpiles.
Subseven achieved this level of intrusion, offering it as a convenient menu option!
As someone who played Tale 1, for the most part I agree with the parent that the game is poorly paced. The 2nd telling didn't actually improve much from what I can tell. One of the largest changes, requiring you to build compounds to hold all major structures, (including sculptures, which are voted on by the populace to pass the test) now makes every area look just about the same.. a sea of off-white compounds. Worse yet, you can only view the contents of one compound at a time, forcing even those with a cable modem and decent graphics card to be reduced to the least denominator. If the compounds merely established boundaries of an area you've claimed I'd be much more apt to like them. As it is now, they are a magical tarp covering all of Egypt. I came, I saw, I had better things to do.
Thanks for clarifying that for the jumpy patent bashers. A glimpse of sanity in an otherwise insane, yet surprisingly SNAFU, Slashdot story. Anyone who took a second to RTFP would realize that they weren't patenting 'online console gaming'.. the description is pretty specific reagrding the technology, actually. Slashdot: Hype for Nerds, Exaggeration that Matters
In other news, air cooled by the frigid waters deep in Lake Ontario started bringing relief to G4 Powerbooks in downtown Toronto on Tuesday after the valves were symbolically opened on the multi-million-dollar project. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/1 8/0056252&tid=126&tid=14
has been cracked. Protection: SF3+pcodes
it's becoming standard practice to quietly hold onto patents as long as possible, delighting in each new victim that violates them. Then, when the profit margin reaches critical mass, send in the legal hounds. I'm assuming the available DB of patents is so large and uses a wide range of semantics that doing an effective search with the use of each new (or old, even) technology is pretty tough.
I think the term I'm looking for here is "cost effectiveness"
I rarely can tell the difference. In fact, it really only grabs my attention when using nice features that are included by default, such as the search field and tabbed windows. The time I save on inspecting every site address before I go to it more than makes up for the small learning curve for settings and such.
He stated that this is the first iteration of this project and that they fully plan to incorporate turning, more variance in vehicle performance, support for legacy vehicles, and unexpected events such as a car breaking down.
He stressed that the system would depend highly on the auto manufacturers making their navigation systems fully compliant, since it's almost a given each will have their own proprietary software interface.