Side note: RAH said his worst mistake ever was that he did not point out that the meritocratic system applied to nurses, waste removal workers etc and not only military personnel. I am not 100% sure, but I think that was in 'Expanded Universe'.
Dunno why you refer to Starship Troopers in your reply as I did not specify it in any way. In any case, the movie took the idea of 'elite humans fight against bugs from another world' and chucked the rest. On the plus side, the movie was what introduced me to the book and I loved Heinlein ever since.
Well, a sense of false entitlement was one of the things he hated the most (judging by what he wrote, but I read pretty much all fiction and a good chunk of his non-fiction).
Never heard of the game, but apparently it did not go through evaluation, yet. Note that there is a difference between 18+, 'harmful to minors' and banned.
* The first can not be sold to anyone under 18 * The second can not be sold openly and you can't run ads for it (which was great marketing, when I was under 18) * The third can not be sold at all
The restriction will just come from a more or less arbitrary decision back in time and not be targeted at that specific satellite as some people seem to think.
What I am interested in, though is how they will be able to use 'real' 50cm shots. Will they do special rounds for Google and other customers? Anti-aliasing is not an option and I can't come up with anything else. So.. How will they do 'real' 50cm? Even vague speculation highly welcomed!
So you are basically saying that they took a very hard look and did a rebalance. I played the game the day it was out and it was horrible. Also, I don't know why you think I could confuse a TA with SC. And walking through 1.5-2 times their cost in resources = no problem. But walking through more than that and it is yet another inbalance. I am glad they changed some things, though. Who knows, I might even give it another chance.
1) It is mathematically proven that you can not prove every true statement that is allowed by the basic axioms. Sometimes, you _have_ to just introduce new axioms. Which then widens the space of true statements, some of which can not be proven using the existing axioms, rinse, repeat.
2) Some things have been accepted as 'most likely true' and are used in proofs and 'everyday' maths without anyone being able to say for certain if they are true. Or if they _can_ be proved (see #1).
Supreme Commander was stable and polished out of the box, it had a couple of balance issues and bugs like anything, but was generally fairly good.
Yes, and there are 'a couple of balance issues' between a stick with a stone on it and tier 3 bots;)
Honestly, the balance in SupCom was, literally, the worst I have seen in any game, ever. If that has significantly changed by now, please reply to this post & tell me:)
Supreme Commander would have been the first game I would have bought in years. I would even have installed Wine for it. It is one of maybe three franchises I care enough about so I would accept closed-source applications. Several of my friends and relatives were looking forward to the day they could buy the game. But, and this is a huge problem, the game is so totally and utterly unbalanced on all levels that playing it is a valley of pain. You spend 20 minutes & a gazillion resources on a metal maker that creates about double the amount a normal one produces? You spend relatively few resources on a tier 3 bot and simply walk through several times its worth of tier 1 units? And that makes it into the wild? A real pity. On the plus side, TA spring is GPL'ed and has many nice mods available, most of which are under active development.
I did that with the engagement ring. Not that great an idea, in my case. Not saying it was outright disastrous, but she would have preferred old style.
Gut feeling? We are geeks! We (try to) act logical, all the time. That being said, unless he knows for _sure_ his sweetheart does not read/., it was indeed a bad idea posting here. On the other hand, he was introduced to the whole titanium idea:)
I meant when a buyer gets foo from you and the money you get is from phished accounts, etc. Had that happen to a friend of mine. Cell phones seem to be very desirable to those scammers.
How does this help with the masses of people who try to rip you off with fake ebay accounts, etc? I know what you mean & I agree. But your way is not 100% secure.
So, you are saying that someone, who is not specified, wants to move away from some program, which is not specified and written in Perl, to a solution based on a different language, which is not specified. You then speculate that this or might not be due to the grown & evolved nature of the unspecified program.
How is this news? What do you actually want to tell us?
Don't get me wrong, I love Perl. I simply do not understand why you would submit this to/. or why it would get approved. I am seriously confused.
But yet somehow the mainstream media will ignore this because the Olympics are patriotic or something.
No idea about the US, but in Germany that is pretty much all the media are reporting about. That, and the DNA doping China reportedly pushed very very far to make sure their athletes will be winning a _lot_ of medals. And the methods used to silence people who happen to disagree with the government.
From my German point of view, the Olympics are already a huge desaster for the Chinese government.
Is this different in other countries?
2 feet per second is 36 meters per minute. This is _way_ too fast.
The way I learned it is that at 25 meters or above, 10 meters per minute should be the absolute maximum. Ideally, you should go 5 meters per minute from 5 meters depth. Below 25 meters, you are allowed up to 20 meters per minute. The second you are using gases other than nitrogen & oxygen, those values change dramatically, though.
Of course, all those speeds are ascent speeds. Max descent speed is almost unlimited, though you will need to take gas switches, increasing pressure during breathing gaps, ear & mask equalizing, buddy teams etc into account. And then there is the good old kick in the brain when you breathe nitrogen at a substantially higher partial pressure for the first time. Drop down to 30 or 40 meters as fast as you can and take two or three normal breaths. The sudden increase makes for a free rollercoaster ride.. From what I heard, not what I tried myself, 60 meters per minute is as fast as a really good tech diver can go.
Actually, computers for technical diving will probably be the very last ones to get such a feature. Few features, but reliable, that is what those people are looking for. Just look around how thrilled people are that you can access the dive log while under water on a VR3. It's just one more thing to keep in mind, which you usually don't want.
Though, admittedly, there are circumstances, when a beacon would be great. For example, when you can't even see your own gloves because the water is so murky. Or when you can't see the flashlight of people who are only a few meters away. Or in blue-water with literally no reference point. Or..:p
There are scuba computers in the works that not only use ultrasonic waves to locate the boat and other divers but also to send messages between each other. Another innovation the Italian and Russian scuba divers are looking forward to, but at least they will not be able to impact others with _those_ tools;)
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Side note: RAH said his worst mistake ever was that he did not point out that the meritocratic system applied to nurses, waste removal workers etc and not only military personnel. I am not 100% sure, but I think that was in 'Expanded Universe'.
The guy who replied to you mentioned it
Good point, that.
Dunno why you refer to Starship Troopers in your reply as I did not specify it in any way. In any case, the movie took the idea of 'elite humans fight against bugs from another world' and chucked the rest. On the plus side, the movie was what introduced me to the book and I loved Heinlein ever since.
Everyone knows that waves heat water. Common knowledge, that. /me heads of to cook spaghetti by shaking the pot.
Well, a sense of false entitlement was one of the things he hated the most (judging by what he wrote, but I read pretty much all fiction and a good chunk of his non-fiction).
I hate apple pie and will do my best to censor any talk about it!
s/harmful/dangerous/ /me bows head in shame
s/it is/it will be/
Never heard of the game, but apparently it did not go through evaluation, yet. Note that there is a difference between 18+, 'harmful to minors' and banned.
* The first can not be sold to anyone under 18
* The second can not be sold openly and you can't run ads for it (which was great marketing, when I was under 18)
* The third can not be sold at all
I highly suspect it is the second.
The restriction will just come from a more or less arbitrary decision back in time and not be targeted at that specific satellite as some people seem to think.
What I am interested in, though is how they will be able to use 'real' 50cm shots. Will they do special rounds for Google and other customers? Anti-aliasing is not an option and I can't come up with anything else. So.. How will they do 'real' 50cm?
Even vague speculation highly welcomed!
So you are basically saying that they took a very hard look and did a rebalance. I played the game the day it was out and it was horrible. Also, I don't know why you think I could confuse a TA with SC. And walking through 1.5-2 times their cost in resources = no problem. But walking through more than that and it is yet another inbalance. I am glad they changed some things, though. Who knows, I might even give it another chance.
Actually, there is.
1) It is mathematically proven that you can not prove every true statement that is allowed by the basic axioms. Sometimes, you _have_ to just introduce new axioms. Which then widens the space of true statements, some of which can not be proven using the existing axioms, rinse, repeat.
2) Some things have been accepted as 'most likely true' and are used in proofs and 'everyday' maths without anyone being able to say for certain if they are true. Or if they _can_ be proved (see #1).
Supreme Commander was stable and polished out of the box, it had a couple of balance issues and bugs like anything, but was generally fairly good.
Yes, and there are 'a couple of balance issues' between a stick with a stone on it and tier 3 bots ;)
:)
Honestly, the balance in SupCom was, literally, the worst I have seen in any game, ever. If that has significantly changed by now, please reply to this post & tell me
For reference, see http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=948535&cid=24807987 , btw.
Supreme Commander would have been the first game I would have bought in years. I would even have installed Wine for it. It is one of maybe three franchises I care enough about so I would accept closed-source applications. Several of my friends and relatives were looking forward to the day they could buy the game.
But, and this is a huge problem, the game is so totally and utterly unbalanced on all levels that playing it is a valley of pain. You spend 20 minutes & a gazillion resources on a metal maker that creates about double the amount a normal one produces? You spend relatively few resources on a tier 3 bot and simply walk through several times its worth of tier 1 units? And that makes it into the wild? A real pity. On the plus side, TA spring is GPL'ed and has many nice mods available, most of which are under active development.
I did that with the engagement ring. Not that great an idea, in my case. Not saying it was outright disastrous, but she would have preferred old style.
Just something to keep in mind.
Gut feeling? We are geeks! We (try to) act logical, all the time. /., it was indeed a bad idea posting here. On the other hand, he was introduced to the whole titanium idea :)
That being said, unless he knows for _sure_ his sweetheart does not read
I meant when a buyer gets foo from you and the money you get is from phished accounts, etc. Had that happen to a friend of mine. Cell phones seem to be very desirable to those scammers.
How does this help with the masses of people who try to rip you off with fake ebay accounts, etc? I know what you mean & I agree. But your way is not 100% secure.
So, you are saying that someone, who is not specified, wants to move away from some program, which is not specified and written in Perl, to a solution based on a different language, which is not specified. You then speculate that this or might not be due to the grown & evolved nature of the unspecified program.
How is this news? What do you actually want to tell us?
Don't get me wrong, I love Perl. I simply do not understand why you would submit this to /. or why it would get approved. I am seriously confused.
The three most current stories have them.. Why?
You mean ho[l]e or hol?e ;)
Thanks.
But yet somehow the mainstream media will ignore this because the Olympics are patriotic or something.
No idea about the US, but in Germany that is pretty much all the media are reporting about. That, and the DNA doping China reportedly pushed very very far to make sure their athletes will be winning a _lot_ of medals. And the methods used to silence people who happen to disagree with the government.
From my German point of view, the Olympics are already a huge desaster for the Chinese government.
Is this different in other countries?
2 feet per second is 36 meters per minute. This is _way_ too fast.
The way I learned it is that at 25 meters or above, 10 meters per minute should be the absolute maximum. Ideally, you should go 5 meters per minute from 5 meters depth. Below 25 meters, you are allowed up to 20 meters per minute. The second you are using gases other than nitrogen & oxygen, those values change dramatically, though.
Of course, all those speeds are ascent speeds. Max descent speed is almost unlimited, though you will need to take gas switches, increasing pressure during breathing gaps, ear & mask equalizing, buddy teams etc into account. And then there is the good old kick in the brain when you breathe nitrogen at a substantially higher partial pressure for the first time. Drop down to 30 or 40 meters as fast as you can and take two or three normal breaths. The sudden increase makes for a free rollercoaster ride..
From what I heard, not what I tried myself, 60 meters per minute is as fast as a really good tech diver can go.
Actually, computers for technical diving will probably be the very last ones to get such a feature. Few features, but reliable, that is what those people are looking for.
Just look around how thrilled people are that you can access the dive log while under water on a VR3. It's just one more thing to keep in mind, which you usually don't want.
Though, admittedly, there are circumstances, when a beacon would be great. :p
For example, when you can't even see your own gloves because the water is so murky. Or when you can't see the flashlight of people who are only a few meters away. Or in blue-water with literally no reference point. Or..
There are scuba computers in the works that not only use ultrasonic waves to locate the boat and other divers but also to send messages between each other. Another innovation the Italian and Russian scuba divers are looking forward to, but at least they will not be able to impact others with _those_ tools ;)