The problem is that anyone who has gone through the effort and expense of obtaining a law degree will want to use it to make a profit, and something like what you describe would, by design, reduce opportunities for this.
T1 had a map boundary. IIRC, the "main" game area was rougly 1kmx1km (there were no hard boundaries, but there weren't any interesting structures or powerups outside this zone either), and the whole map was 10kmx10km.
I think they did it by repeating the landscape and keeping the poly count super low. The playable area didn't really end, but you could fall off the edge of the world when you reached the end of the map.
If you flew in a straight line for 20 minutes in a scout, I'm pretty sure you'd be about 10 minutes off the edge, and the weird flying physics would have long since taken over and gotten you killed.
I always wanted to try taking a scout or that quad transport thingie over the edge of the map, then under the map to have it appear in the enemy basement on that one map with the bridge and bunkers. Never tried it, though.
you should try the win7 task bar.. I thought pinning things would be inferior to quick launch, but after upgrading I find I much prefer the pinning option, because they also added hotkeys for the items in the task bar.
windows + number will switch to the first ten items (or cycle through its group, if several instances are running and grouped), and it will open a new one if there isn't already one running. shift + windows + number will start a new one if there IS one already running.
I haven't been using 7 for long, but I'm looking forward to discovering the new shortcuts.
It bugs me when people suggest or follow through with using their write-in vote on fictional characters others who aren't even eligible to serve. Micky Mouse can't be president no matter how many people vote for him. That is the very definition of a wasted vote.
Only to make up for electrical losses. work is force applied over a distance, and the trains are all traveling almost perpendicular to the force needed to support the train against gravity.
Sure, some crops wouldn't be good candidates, but for bulk crops like wheat and such, with enough bandwidth you could outsource actually driving the machinery to a "tractor drone pilot" living in a city somewhere. With GPS navigation and fields in a flat state like Kansas, the remote operator doesn't even have to devote full attention to a single machine, maybe they'd even only be needed to drive the machines to and from the fields to to pick up seed and supplies and drop off the harvest.
Is there encryption that works like "scrambling"? (i.e. requiring the decryption of the entire message because information about each character is spread out to the whole thing?)
From what I've read (not much, so I'm probably totally off base), I think such encryption would be pretty ideal, and maybe is naive explanation of what's going on in each block of a block cipher, but would be murder on cpu for any message larger than a small email...
The problem is that self-publishing only solves one of the problems that traditional publishers have historically addressed.
Editing and Triage are other major issues, and the traditional publishing industry seems to be helping to close the gap by skimping on both....
I don't see why those can't be solved without traditional publishers, but there's probably always going to be a need for someone to edit, and for someone to front the money for that to happen (and, choose what gets edited and what gets ignored, by extension...) for authors who are new and aren't already wealthy enough to cover the costs.
All experts need to learn their expertise somehow.
An expert in using software that you have just written is going to need some kind of documentation from you on how your software works. They're going to need thorough documentation, and you're going to need to assume they've never used your software before, because you've just written it and no one has used it yet.
Everyone who wants a holo-room isn't going to be living on a ship in the star fleet, and the typical economy-sized holohome on the 30th floor of the center-city bachelor tower doesn't need weapons OR shields....
Nobody forced your friends to use it either, but no one is stopping them from using it either, and by some of their possible actions, you're using it whether you want to or not....
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What would the benefit be?
Funny you should say that... it did, or will. Not sure if it's priced in yet.
The secondary market pushes the prices up. Each person in the chain doesn't net pay the whole $60.
The problem is that anyone who has gone through the effort and expense of obtaining a law degree will want to use it to make a profit, and something like what you describe would, by design, reduce opportunities for this.
No, you wrote a fan fic for T2
Why? Bad guys can't scrounge $50?
you don't think that's a problem? That you have to risk your money just to keep it?
My government keeps adding to its list. I'm not sure it's a coincidence that this also happens to expand its power and reach.
T1 had a map boundary. IIRC, the "main" game area was rougly 1kmx1km (there were no hard boundaries, but there weren't any interesting structures or powerups outside this zone either), and the whole map was 10kmx10km.
I think they did it by repeating the landscape and keeping the poly count super low. The playable area didn't really end, but you could fall off the edge of the world when you reached the end of the map.
If you flew in a straight line for 20 minutes in a scout, I'm pretty sure you'd be about 10 minutes off the edge, and the weird flying physics would have long since taken over and gotten you killed.
I always wanted to try taking a scout or that quad transport thingie over the edge of the map, then under the map to have it appear in the enemy basement on that one map with the bridge and bunkers. Never tried it, though.
If they're not getting their money from you paying them to provide a great game, how are they getting it?
the Silver and Green themes are pretty non-eye-bleeding.
you should try the win7 task bar.. I thought pinning things would be inferior to quick launch, but after upgrading I find I much prefer the pinning option, because they also added hotkeys for the items in the task bar.
windows + number will switch to the first ten items (or cycle through its group, if several instances are running and grouped), and it will open a new one if there isn't already one running. shift + windows + number will start a new one if there IS one already running.
I haven't been using 7 for long, but I'm looking forward to discovering the new shortcuts.
It bugs me when people suggest or follow through with using their write-in vote on fictional characters others who aren't even eligible to serve. Micky Mouse can't be president no matter how many people vote for him. That is the very definition of a wasted vote.
One of them said that when? How would he know they weren't lying?
Only to make up for electrical losses. work is force applied over a distance, and the trains are all traveling almost perpendicular to the force needed to support the train against gravity.
Jobs program for the tractor drivers.
Sure, some crops wouldn't be good candidates, but for bulk crops like wheat and such, with enough bandwidth you could outsource actually driving the machinery to a "tractor drone pilot" living in a city somewhere. With GPS navigation and fields in a flat state like Kansas, the remote operator doesn't even have to devote full attention to a single machine, maybe they'd even only be needed to drive the machines to and from the fields to to pick up seed and supplies and drop off the harvest.
Is there encryption that works like "scrambling"? (i.e. requiring the decryption of the entire message because information about each character is spread out to the whole thing?)
From what I've read (not much, so I'm probably totally off base), I think such encryption would be pretty ideal, and maybe is naive explanation of what's going on in each block of a block cipher, but would be murder on cpu for any message larger than a small email...
The problem is that self-publishing only solves one of the problems that traditional publishers have historically addressed.
Editing and Triage are other major issues, and the traditional publishing industry seems to be helping to close the gap by skimping on both....
I don't see why those can't be solved without traditional publishers, but there's probably always going to be a need for someone to edit, and for someone to front the money for that to happen (and, choose what gets edited and what gets ignored, by extension...) for authors who are new and aren't already wealthy enough to cover the costs.
Quinoa? Isn't that just some kind of dirt-flavored grits?
The problem is that the quartz watch will keep better time than the mechanicals, no matter how luxury the brand...
All experts need to learn their expertise somehow.
An expert in using software that you have just written is going to need some kind of documentation from you on how your software works. They're going to need thorough documentation, and you're going to need to assume they've never used your software before, because you've just written it and no one has used it yet.
Your imagination needs some upgrades...
Everyone who wants a holo-room isn't going to be living on a ship in the star fleet, and the typical economy-sized holohome on the 30th floor of the center-city bachelor tower doesn't need weapons OR shields....
Why would holodecks be scarce if everything else can be magicked into existence?
And if holodecks offer perfect replication of the view, why not just live in one and have a grand mansion of a cabin programmed into it?
with P2W, you're not really playing games either. Except for the game of "my job is better than your job"
Would Chess be a fun game if you could just buy pawn promotions early?
Nobody forced your friends to use it either, but no one is stopping them from using it either, and by some of their possible actions, you're using it whether you want to or not....