Cover combat kinda turns into a silly shooting gallery in its modern incarnation, especially since you can just duck behind the cover and wait for your health to refill automatically. It removes most of the map from the actual gameplay and turns all enemies into samey fights as they all just hide and you shoot them when they look out of their hiding place. Also it becomes too samey across games, most cover shooters play very similar to each other to the point where it stops mattering which one you play and the only way they maintain their high review scores is by throwing eye candy like big explosions or fights into the background. Any game that doesn't look like a Michael Bay production makes it obvious how samey the combat is and gets downmarked by reviewers.
As for headshots, I think the focus on "one bullet to the head is fatal" has made games even more samey, can't even have varying enemy HP since they all die to a single headshot (and when they arbitrarily don't that's even more annoying). I'd rather have no headshot multiplier at all. Especially on a non-Wii console where it's already tough enough to get the crosshairs on the enemy's body, never mind the tiny bit on the top. I did like it in EYE Divine Cybermancy though where Jian heavy armor didn't cover the face so you COULD fight the Jians with non-armor-piercing weapons provided you had great aim or you'd just take a low mag capacity AP weapon and shot them in the body. Unfortunately those were the only enemies where that happened, the rest was either all armor or no armor.
No, it does not. It's the default behaviour of a browser and something most people are unaware of. The browser developer has decided to agree in place of the user.
Also let's not forget that pay in the mines does not start until you reach the actual dig site. While that's not so problematic in modern mines it used to take several hours to go down the ladders in deeper mines a century or two ago. Hours that you don't get paid for.
It is always possible to invent needless, unprovable elements for every subject. Before you start talking about creator beings you have to talk about their plane of existence, how they came into existence, what they're made of, how they developed intelligent thought and how they affect our reality. An intelligent creator is possibly the most complex thing imaginable.
The big problem with creationism is that it just says "there's a creator and it created the world", it never says anything about that creator (and that's just because "intelligent design" is a front for Christian beliefs but they can't admit that without proving that they are not interested in rational debate). When a new particle is hypothesized it comes with a description of what it has to be capable of. We managed to find a lot of things that were hypothesized from their effects once our technology got good enough but there's no description of what a creator does or how it should affect the universe. How can we detect a creator in a lab? What effects would the existence of a creator have that the absence of one would lack and how can we use that to test for the existence of that creator in a lab?
Thermodynamics break down if spacetime breaks down. A hypothesis about the big bang is that time itself came into existence with it and thermodynamics only cover what happens from one moment to the next. The first moment would not be subject to any rules of thermodynamics as it has no prior moment it can be compared to.
These people are doing things like using two cellphones because they believe they are still in control of the car (90% of drivers rate their own ability as "above average"). Punishing them only for causing a wreck will not discourage them at all because they believe they will never cause a wreck. The government has the duty to protect the basic rights of life, liberty and whatever third thing your guys felt like listing (it's security of person in the Declaration of Human Rights) and that means preventing car accidents, not just punishing the (likely already dead) guy who caused them.
I think the politicians are to blame for the Swine Flu panic, they're the ones who were screaming about the end of the world and stockpiling vaccines and stuff. The public didn't care, nobody took those free vaccines. Only the pharma industry is happy about the situation.
Climate and weather are very different things. You can predict the climate far more than the weather, just as you can predict trends in a population better than an individual's daily schedule.
The reason for static typing is not implementation difficulties but bug checking. When I need an int variable I can declare it as such and make sure I never accidentally stick anything else into that variable. With dynamic typing a function can return values of different types or maybe a programming mistake makes the variable contain "3" instead of 3 and the error only pops up when something assumes you give it an int and it finds something else. In something like Lua you can have functions that return a value or nil but nil is usually in case of an error. If you don't diligently stick error handling behind every such function call you'll end up with an error many lines down and the fun trying to debug what caused the nil and where it is (if you got a few stacked tables and one of the tables in the pile is a nil it won't even tell you how deep down the nil was).
Static typing prevents user errors. Being able to detect errors where they happen greatly improves debugging and testing, helping massively with making sure the shipped product has fewer errors. The goal of modern high-level languages is to make it easier to keep the error count down and thus development costs down.
You're forgetting the major force that is marketing. Marketing specializes on altering the customer's mind to believe that a specific company offers the best deal whether that's true or not.
Then regulations should be made at the state, not the federal level with the federal level only mandating rough outlines. That's how it works in the EU, most regulations are at the member state level with EU regulations providing more of a framework. Your states are supposed to be fairly independent so make use of that.
From what I understand the EU is what the USA was supposed to be, after all the interstate commerce clause would've been written very differently if central govt control everywhere was intended.
I'm a frequent traveler, another use case is people who can't use the family TV with a console so they have to use something with its own screen for gaming.
Well, there's XBox Live Arcade which is a lower tier than retail but still much higher than the App Store. However modern dev budgets are weighted much more towards polish so games with many times the budgets of old classics like Super Mario Bros 3 have only a tiny fraction of the content. I bet developing Shadow Complex was many times more expensive than making Super Metroid but it's not quite on the same level of fun.
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Does it have the good ol' cyberpunk staple of black ICE?
Cover combat kinda turns into a silly shooting gallery in its modern incarnation, especially since you can just duck behind the cover and wait for your health to refill automatically. It removes most of the map from the actual gameplay and turns all enemies into samey fights as they all just hide and you shoot them when they look out of their hiding place. Also it becomes too samey across games, most cover shooters play very similar to each other to the point where it stops mattering which one you play and the only way they maintain their high review scores is by throwing eye candy like big explosions or fights into the background. Any game that doesn't look like a Michael Bay production makes it obvious how samey the combat is and gets downmarked by reviewers.
As for headshots, I think the focus on "one bullet to the head is fatal" has made games even more samey, can't even have varying enemy HP since they all die to a single headshot (and when they arbitrarily don't that's even more annoying). I'd rather have no headshot multiplier at all. Especially on a non-Wii console where it's already tough enough to get the crosshairs on the enemy's body, never mind the tiny bit on the top. I did like it in EYE Divine Cybermancy though where Jian heavy armor didn't cover the face so you COULD fight the Jians with non-armor-piercing weapons provided you had great aim or you'd just take a low mag capacity AP weapon and shot them in the body. Unfortunately those were the only enemies where that happened, the rest was either all armor or no armor.
An argument for not letting browser caches persist after the program exits.
No, it does not. It's the default behaviour of a browser and something most people are unaware of. The browser developer has decided to agree in place of the user.
Sounds like cancer. I suggest radiation treatment at the originating location.
Also let's not forget that pay in the mines does not start until you reach the actual dig site. While that's not so problematic in modern mines it used to take several hours to go down the ladders in deeper mines a century or two ago. Hours that you don't get paid for.
No, that comes from religion. Although our weekend has moved a bit from the Sabbath it's still the same principle.
It is always possible to invent needless, unprovable elements for every subject. Before you start talking about creator beings you have to talk about their plane of existence, how they came into existence, what they're made of, how they developed intelligent thought and how they affect our reality. An intelligent creator is possibly the most complex thing imaginable.
The big problem with creationism is that it just says "there's a creator and it created the world", it never says anything about that creator (and that's just because "intelligent design" is a front for Christian beliefs but they can't admit that without proving that they are not interested in rational debate). When a new particle is hypothesized it comes with a description of what it has to be capable of. We managed to find a lot of things that were hypothesized from their effects once our technology got good enough but there's no description of what a creator does or how it should affect the universe. How can we detect a creator in a lab? What effects would the existence of a creator have that the absence of one would lack and how can we use that to test for the existence of that creator in a lab?
Thermodynamics break down if spacetime breaks down. A hypothesis about the big bang is that time itself came into existence with it and thermodynamics only cover what happens from one moment to the next. The first moment would not be subject to any rules of thermodynamics as it has no prior moment it can be compared to.
Lawyers do jack shit without a court room.
the guy may not have thought about what he was doing as a crime.
That would mark him as a terrible driver, too.
These people are doing things like using two cellphones because they believe they are still in control of the car (90% of drivers rate their own ability as "above average"). Punishing them only for causing a wreck will not discourage them at all because they believe they will never cause a wreck. The government has the duty to protect the basic rights of life, liberty and whatever third thing your guys felt like listing (it's security of person in the Declaration of Human Rights) and that means preventing car accidents, not just punishing the (likely already dead) guy who caused them.
A person in the same car will notice a dangerous situation and stop chatting. A person on the other end of a cellphone call cannot do that.
I think the politicians are to blame for the Swine Flu panic, they're the ones who were screaming about the end of the world and stockpiling vaccines and stuff. The public didn't care, nobody took those free vaccines. Only the pharma industry is happy about the situation.
Climate and weather are very different things. You can predict the climate far more than the weather, just as you can predict trends in a population better than an individual's daily schedule.
The reason for static typing is not implementation difficulties but bug checking. When I need an int variable I can declare it as such and make sure I never accidentally stick anything else into that variable. With dynamic typing a function can return values of different types or maybe a programming mistake makes the variable contain "3" instead of 3 and the error only pops up when something assumes you give it an int and it finds something else. In something like Lua you can have functions that return a value or nil but nil is usually in case of an error. If you don't diligently stick error handling behind every such function call you'll end up with an error many lines down and the fun trying to debug what caused the nil and where it is (if you got a few stacked tables and one of the tables in the pile is a nil it won't even tell you how deep down the nil was).
Static typing prevents user errors. Being able to detect errors where they happen greatly improves debugging and testing, helping massively with making sure the shipped product has fewer errors. The goal of modern high-level languages is to make it easier to keep the error count down and thus development costs down.
Is PyPy very different from Psyco? I've been using the latter for scripts that needed speedups.
Yeah but why would I use Bing just to give more clicks to site owners?
I think he means cars as the personal vehicle variety, not including trucks and such which are the real cause of wear.
You're forgetting the major force that is marketing. Marketing specializes on altering the customer's mind to believe that a specific company offers the best deal whether that's true or not.
So, how much for an AAA rating for Greece?
Then regulations should be made at the state, not the federal level with the federal level only mandating rough outlines. That's how it works in the EU, most regulations are at the member state level with EU regulations providing more of a framework. Your states are supposed to be fairly independent so make use of that.
From what I understand the EU is what the USA was supposed to be, after all the interstate commerce clause would've been written very differently if central govt control everywhere was intended.
I'm a frequent traveler, another use case is people who can't use the family TV with a console so they have to use something with its own screen for gaming.
Well, there's XBox Live Arcade which is a lower tier than retail but still much higher than the App Store. However modern dev budgets are weighted much more towards polish so games with many times the budgets of old classics like Super Mario Bros 3 have only a tiny fraction of the content. I bet developing Shadow Complex was many times more expensive than making Super Metroid but it's not quite on the same level of fun.