Gather every bit of info it can to identify the user and send that off to a server, and then take appropriate action from there. Yeah, some firewalls might complain... heck, just call it authentication or whatever and make the software be able to establish contact regardless, do it through a public port, and throw a thing on there to call support if this needs to be bypassed.
I mainly play world of warcraft, which did take a performance hit. I play it in windowed, not full screen mode (though maximized so it looks full screen). The main reason for doing this is so when I alt-tab to something else, I can see a little preview window of what is going on in WOW when I hover my mouse over its application in the task bar. This is great for when on a gryphon flight or a boat, I can read slashdot or other news stories and know when to switch back without having to alt-tab back.
Mostly my FPS is fine, a tad less but more than enough for WOW. The only annoying thing left is some occasional CPU spikes which I haven't been able to nail down (it happens even if I'm not running wow).
Maybe I missed something to turn on, but with a nice surround sound system, the contrast between the level of audio immersiveness between this game (not much) and gears of war (incredible) is worth noting...
That being said, I haven't really gotten into the game yet, what with Burning Crusade coming out...
The songs you can't have show up just like other songs. They're just grayed out. Taunting you. saying "look what I have that you can't have". They'll even have reviews of the stuff you can't have when you click on them.
I have a Zune. There, i'll admit it. I like it, too. The zune marketplace software can be a tad slow at time but the zune pass is the main reason to have one, if I could have bought it sans the player and used what I had before (and still have) I'd have done that. But okay, fine, they need a new player to expire the content, that's probably its main reason for existing and not being their previously endorsed "playsforsure".
Anyway, as I said the Zune pass is the main reason to have one, it lets you download whatever you want from the marketplace.
Now, odds are if you have a zune, you have the pass. Maybe not, but likely so.
So. If you meet another zune owner (and I'll admit this has never happened to me, and I live in one of the ten largest metro areas in the US), and you both have zune pass --- meaning whatever the song is, you could go home and download it and keep it on there for as long as you were a member (forget the 3 days 3 plays) --- you still can't zip it over there. Ridiculous. I guess you might as well just tell them the name of the song or artist.
The wifi feature of the device is pretty much a non-feature. The zune pass is really the only feature at this time. Something apple could easily implement, and hey, I hope they do at some point. But they'd probably have to pay through the nose after microsoft's deal for that. but that's neither here nor there.
Given the pass, the player is still worth it for me. They may update its firmware someday and add other stuff, but as I said, I mainly have this for the pass.
I actually keep the wifi turned on (sacrificing some battery) because on the zune boards I frequent (Zunerama) they kind of encourage everyone to do that in hopes paths might cross (on the boards this has resulted in exactly one reported encounter of people that didn't buy them together)...
Someone even went and made a way to chat with Zunes over wifi. How? Well, it lets you share photos. So he created a set of pictures with every letter of the alphabet, plus common phrases and emoticons. So you share photos in a certain order and your recipient can view the pictures to put together the message. A staggering amount of effort...
Anyway. Given that its Sony, and Sony and Microsoft are currently enemies on the gaming front, dunno if its somehow related. Sony doesn't allow sharing of music on PSPs, does it? I have a sony ericsson walkman phone which doesn't seem to have much in the way of DRM enforcement on it. It is supposed to have some kind of associated store from Cingular, but never got around to using it.
To watch it faster, we'd just have to launch a camera in that direction, if it were fast enough it could reduce the time increasingly that it took the light to reach the camera.
Unfortunately, even if this could be done, getting the video back to you here would be difficult.
Given space being infinite, shouldn't there be something out there somewhere that got destroyed and is just reaching us now?
for the first I don't know how many missions, more than I was willing to wait through.
You really shouldn't lead off with a weak spot, even if it was chronologically first...
I love the show, but I'm always leery of license RPGs... A good movie or tv show is not necessarily a good reason or setting for an RPG.
In particular here, with the story not yet resolved, the GM would have to basically invent the motives/reasons for things that we don't know yet. Nothing wrong with that except that it will likely be proved false as we continue to watch the show. We know who the cylons are. So right off the bat you'd have to start changing show canon if you want any suspense on that account.
Also, the setting is rather in where you can be, either on the fleet or maybe a resistance force back on the colonies. Ok, those are entire planets, so maybe there is more potential there.
Your bestiary is likewise fairly limited, you have centurion, raider, biocylon and from there you have to start inventing stuff.
The licensed RPGs I've enjoyed best were ones that had a wealth of material to turn to as well as a resolved story but had large sections of it with time and places where little was known. I liked Iron Crown's Middle Earth RPG (MERP). I didn't care for the first Babylon 5 RPG. The serenity one... is better I suppose, but at least has the wide open solar system where lots of things go on that are outside the scope of what we saw on the show. BSG tends to pretty much account for everyone, there are
That being said I may well end up getting this anyway. Often times these RPGS are more useful as sources of background material, especially if they can get some collaboration from the show's creators on the content. Just not sure I'd run it.
I think Ford may be the only President whose wife left a longer-lasting legacy and larger impact on our consciousness than he did. I mean, he was pretty bland other than dealing with things he didn't start...but the Betty Ford clinic is practically part of our national vocabulary.
That was pretty much my response too... they killed it. Can those things even take being under the far less pressure near the surface water? Once they had it hooked, you think they could have sent a diver down at some intermediary depth to film it...
I guess this is new territory and they're learning things (like, if you pull a giant squid to the surface, it dies), so I guess I can give them a pass this time. But yeah, there has to be a better way.
Those eyes are just unnerving, think I read somewhere that they have the largest eyes of any known creature... no idea on how large their brains are, but you'd have to think it is uncharted territory in terms of invertebrates. I'm not with PETA or anything, but I have to wonder what it was thinking as it was hauled up to its death, fighting the entire way...
This building you guys got us workin on here, ain't designed by no trusted autodesk product?
You can't trust those other designed projects, sometimes things just go wrong on them, the crane pulls something too far and then BOOM!
So its like this, we don't move one finger unless it was designed by 100% genuine autodesk products.
I fear this game may go the way of Auto Assault - a rather good MMORPG in this setting.
The thing that killed Auto Assault for me (in the beta, mind you) was that the setting didn't have the post-apocalyptic feel to me. The part about never running out of fuel or bullets (guns overheat and need cooldown, but don't run out). That just wrecked it immeidately for me. Scarcity of resources is a hallmark of the setting, the whole intro piece to "mad max" about killing each other for gasoline...
What I wanted would have been some thing like "Interstate '76" online.
That's like so far off! Civilization could be in ruins, a radioactive wasteland by the time it comes out.....
Seirously though, it is a setting that needs an MMORPG.
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Gather every bit of info it can to identify the user and send that off to a server, and then take appropriate action from there. Yeah, some firewalls might complain... heck, just call it authentication or whatever and make the software be able to establish contact regardless, do it through a public port, and throw a thing on there to call support if this needs to be bypassed.
the logical sequel, has become yet another game industry conquered by Blizzard...
I mainly play world of warcraft, which did take a performance hit. I play it in windowed, not full screen mode (though maximized so it looks full screen). The main reason for doing this is so when I alt-tab to something else, I can see a little preview window of what is going on in WOW when I hover my mouse over its application in the task bar. This is great for when on a gryphon flight or a boat, I can read slashdot or other news stories and know when to switch back without having to alt-tab back. Mostly my FPS is fine, a tad less but more than enough for WOW. The only annoying thing left is some occasional CPU spikes which I haven't been able to nail down (it happens even if I'm not running wow).
Maybe I missed something to turn on, but with a nice surround sound system, the contrast between the level of audio immersiveness between this game (not much) and gears of war (incredible) is worth noting...
That being said, I haven't really gotten into the game yet, what with Burning Crusade coming out...
within 30 feet anyway.
Actually I think a zombie horse would be pretty cool, but that's not related to this...
So, this guy was in charge of marketing the device, while J Allard handled the tech?
By most accounts, the device had decent technology, but everyone thought it was crap?
Sounds like a failure of marketing...
Miami fell apart in football and now the .um domain...
.um domain.
.um.
Come to think of it, the University of Miami would have been the logical university to control the
I tried to find a website on
www.um points to something. Seems like an exchange point domain. Keeps calling itself ep.net. Except ep.net isn't up.
Mars Express scientists think Mars might have plenty of water underground.
I'm sure they'll fix the article soon. But tossing the quoted section into a news.google search provides this.
The songs you can't have show up just like other songs. They're just grayed out. Taunting you. saying "look what I have that you can't have". They'll even have reviews of the stuff you can't have when you click on them.
I have a Zune. There, i'll admit it. I like it, too. The zune marketplace software can be a tad slow at time but the zune pass is the main reason to have one, if I could have bought it sans the player and used what I had before (and still have) I'd have done that. But okay, fine, they need a new player to expire the content, that's probably its main reason for existing and not being their previously endorsed "playsforsure".
Anyway, as I said the Zune pass is the main reason to have one, it lets you download whatever you want from the marketplace.
Now, odds are if you have a zune, you have the pass. Maybe not, but likely so.
So. If you meet another zune owner (and I'll admit this has never happened to me, and I live in one of the ten largest metro areas in the US), and you both have zune pass --- meaning whatever the song is, you could go home and download it and keep it on there for as long as you were a member (forget the 3 days 3 plays) --- you still can't zip it over there. Ridiculous. I guess you might as well just tell them the name of the song or artist.
The wifi feature of the device is pretty much a non-feature. The zune pass is really the only feature at this time. Something apple could easily implement, and hey, I hope they do at some point. But they'd probably have to pay through the nose after microsoft's deal for that. but that's neither here nor there.
Given the pass, the player is still worth it for me. They may update its firmware someday and add other stuff, but as I said, I mainly have this for the pass.
I actually keep the wifi turned on (sacrificing some battery) because on the zune boards I frequent (Zunerama) they kind of encourage everyone to do that in hopes paths might cross (on the boards this has resulted in exactly one reported encounter of people that didn't buy them together)...
Someone even went and made a way to chat with Zunes over wifi. How? Well, it lets you share photos. So he created a set of pictures with every letter of the alphabet, plus common phrases and emoticons. So you share photos in a certain order and your recipient can view the pictures to put together the message. A staggering amount of effort...
Anyway. Given that its Sony, and Sony and Microsoft are currently enemies on the gaming front, dunno if its somehow related. Sony doesn't allow sharing of music on PSPs, does it? I have a sony ericsson walkman phone which doesn't seem to have much in the way of DRM enforcement on it. It is supposed to have some kind of associated store from Cingular, but never got around to using it.
To watch it faster, we'd just have to launch a camera in that direction, if it were fast enough it could reduce the time increasingly that it took the light to reach the camera.
Unfortunately, even if this could be done, getting the video back to you here would be difficult.
Given space being infinite, shouldn't there be something out there somewhere that got destroyed and is just reaching us now?
They were obviously destroyed during the Shadow War, as documented on Babylon 5 episode Into the Fire...
for the first I don't know how many missions, more than I was willing to wait through. You really shouldn't lead off with a weak spot, even if it was chronologically first...
Just how many people live in this state anyway?
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I love the show, but I'm always leery of license RPGs... A good movie or tv show is not necessarily a good reason or setting for an RPG.
In particular here, with the story not yet resolved, the GM would have to basically invent the motives/reasons for things that we don't know yet. Nothing wrong with that except that it will likely be proved false as we continue to watch the show. We know who the cylons are. So right off the bat you'd have to start changing show canon if you want any suspense on that account.
Also, the setting is rather in where you can be, either on the fleet or maybe a resistance force back on the colonies. Ok, those are entire planets, so maybe there is more potential there.
Your bestiary is likewise fairly limited, you have centurion, raider, biocylon and from there you have to start inventing stuff.
The licensed RPGs I've enjoyed best were ones that had a wealth of material to turn to as well as a resolved story but had large sections of it with time and places where little was known. I liked Iron Crown's Middle Earth RPG (MERP). I didn't care for the first Babylon 5 RPG. The serenity one... is better I suppose, but at least has the wide open solar system where lots of things go on that are outside the scope of what we saw on the show. BSG tends to pretty much account for everyone, there are
That being said I may well end up getting this anyway. Often times these RPGS are more useful as sources of background material, especially if they can get some collaboration from the show's creators on the content. Just not sure I'd run it.
instead of NSFW, create a SFW tag, and configure your browser to display only that which has it.
"God its a barren featureless wasteland out there..." - Lt. the Honorable George Colhurst St. Barleigh, looking at the wrong side of a map...
That's my favorite rumor anyway....
I think Ford may be the only President whose wife left a longer-lasting legacy and larger impact on our consciousness than he did. I mean, he was pretty bland other than dealing with things he didn't start...but the Betty Ford clinic is practically part of our national vocabulary.
The need for more research in giant domes capable of keeping out the sea is clear.
That was pretty much my response too... they killed it. Can those things even take being under the far less pressure near the surface water? Once they had it hooked, you think they could have sent a diver down at some intermediary depth to film it...
I guess this is new territory and they're learning things (like, if you pull a giant squid to the surface, it dies), so I guess I can give them a pass this time. But yeah, there has to be a better way.
Those eyes are just unnerving, think I read somewhere that they have the largest eyes of any known creature... no idea on how large their brains are, but you'd have to think it is uncharted territory in terms of invertebrates. I'm not with PETA or anything, but I have to wonder what it was thinking as it was hauled up to its death, fighting the entire way...
This building you guys got us workin on here, ain't designed by no trusted autodesk product? You can't trust those other designed projects, sometimes things just go wrong on them, the crane pulls something too far and then BOOM! So its like this, we don't move one finger unless it was designed by 100% genuine autodesk products.
The thing that killed Auto Assault for me (in the beta, mind you) was that the setting didn't have the post-apocalyptic feel to me. The part about never running out of fuel or bullets (guns overheat and need cooldown, but don't run out). That just wrecked it immeidately for me. Scarcity of resources is a hallmark of the setting, the whole intro piece to "mad max" about killing each other for gasoline...
What I wanted would have been some thing like "Interstate '76" online.
That's like so far off! Civilization could be in ruins, a radioactive wasteland by the time it comes out..... Seirously though, it is a setting that needs an MMORPG.
Remember New Mexico was going to build one too...
offhand I'd think Ohio, being farther north, would be at a disadvantage.
Ideally you'd want the highest altitude closest to the equator. Meaning Ecuador would be the logical place to put it.