You can claim that about anything, doesn't make it true. In Germany you lose the right to freedom of expression if you abuse it to undermine the democratic foundation of the country. We're just more open about it, any country will get you if you try to destroy it, the charges will just carry different names.
The Streisand effect is about information, not political leaning. Or did the US see a sudden surge in the popularity of communism during the McCarthy era?
Now, any German politician who proposes repealing those laws could easily be accused of trying to bring back the policies of the Third Reich and (thankfully, in my opinion) be promptly voted out of office.
Unfortunately that doesn't seem to people like Schäuble who actually try to bring those policies back.
The most annoying example I can think of was Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the book signing scene. In the movie you see the swastikas and such, in the matching videogame the swastikas are censored.
Chernobyl was a meltdown, not a nuclear explosion. It did explode because of overpressure from steam and all that but it wasn't the same as you'd see from a real nuclear weapon. Hell, most of the powerplant stayed in use afterwards, a nuke would have obliterated that.
An automatically spreading bioweapon would be a massive risk because it wouldn't stop spreading at the border and with today's global trade not at continent boundaries either. You'd fire the thing and end up with infections in your own population too. Well, unless you make the thing not spread from infected to infected but then you can just as well use chemical agents.
I rarely ever made it past one docking maneuver but I did run into a bunch of Thargoid invasion ships once and wrecked quite a few of them (plus their drones or whatever it was they launched) before they finally killed me and that was with the starting equipment. I think it was on the C64.
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I imagine accuracy would be a massive issue in battles at that range, your average machinegun isn't going to land many hits at 300km distance even without atmospheric friction to worry about. You could try using the airplane approach of throwing more bullets at the problem but that'd have a nasty amount of recoil and throw both your aim and your movement off-course. I don't think you're going to score many hits without using guided missiles that can correct their course after launch or just lasers (and I mean the real light kind, not the slow moving bullet type you see in movies).
Maybe the first challenge could already be spotting the enemy with your sensors, kinda like sub warfare.
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Tom Clancy's HAWX managed to make plane combat with guided missiles fun. The tricky part is to fly in a way that confuses the enemy missile's guidance and makes it fly past you harmlessly while also launching your missiles in a vector that makes them likely to hit the target (either dead frontal while praying that the enemy doesn't dodge or from the rear).
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Elite didn't have it? Only the sequels did, I'm not sure how well those did compared to the original.
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I thought the "jump" button just caused a time skip, not a physical jump...
Depends, if you just need a few buttons they're more comfortable to hit on a gamepad (using both hands on the keyboard in some games makes me cramp up, I think it's the low position of the arrow keys on the keyboard which mean my wrist no longer rests on my wrist rest) and sometimes analog sticks are useful for movement (e.g. when driving a car that doesn't take kindly to having its controls go from zero to 100% to zero again when you want to make small corrections). Melee based games rarely benefit from mouse control as you don't have to do much aiming while you do have to switch between different buttons with the right timing.
It's a bit different from, say, Photoshop because that's an application, not an OS. Photoshop is not security critical and can be replaced on a computer without needing any major changes, just uninstall and throw the new version on it. Replacing the OS means reinstalling everything that is on the system and a major amount of work plus a quite large risk that something will break (especially old software that's uyed on the computer but not compatible with the latest Windows OS).
huge hits recently such as Bioshock and Mass Effect show pretty clearly that a good plot, solid setting, and good graphics are key to a blockbuster game.
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You can claim that about anything, doesn't make it true. In Germany you lose the right to freedom of expression if you abuse it to undermine the democratic foundation of the country. We're just more open about it, any country will get you if you try to destroy it, the charges will just carry different names.
The Streisand effect is about information, not political leaning. Or did the US see a sudden surge in the popularity of communism during the McCarthy era?
Now, any German politician who proposes repealing those laws could easily be accused of trying to bring back the policies of the Third Reich and (thankfully, in my opinion) be promptly voted out of office.
Unfortunately that doesn't seem to people like Schäuble who actually try to bring those policies back.
Wolfenstein 3D maybe but that was never censored down anyway and remains banned to this day.
The most annoying example I can think of was Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the book signing scene. In the movie you see the swastikas and such, in the matching videogame the swastikas are censored.
I'd rather have a censored game than no game at all.
Why is jogging in a dust storm the best way of meeting people in Australia?
This is because OpenDHT has a closed-access model as opposed to an open-access model like Vuze
Sounds kinda ironic.
Chernobyl was a meltdown, not a nuclear explosion. It did explode because of overpressure from steam and all that but it wasn't the same as you'd see from a real nuclear weapon. Hell, most of the powerplant stayed in use afterwards, a nuke would have obliterated that.
An automatically spreading bioweapon would be a massive risk because it wouldn't stop spreading at the border and with today's global trade not at continent boundaries either. You'd fire the thing and end up with infections in your own population too. Well, unless you make the thing not spread from infected to infected but then you can just as well use chemical agents.
I rarely ever made it past one docking maneuver but I did run into a bunch of Thargoid invasion ships once and wrecked quite a few of them (plus their drones or whatever it was they launched) before they finally killed me and that was with the starting equipment. I think it was on the C64.
Soyuz capsules with 23mm cannon.
I reckon it'd look somewhat like this.
I imagine accuracy would be a massive issue in battles at that range, your average machinegun isn't going to land many hits at 300km distance even without atmospheric friction to worry about. You could try using the airplane approach of throwing more bullets at the problem but that'd have a nasty amount of recoil and throw both your aim and your movement off-course. I don't think you're going to score many hits without using guided missiles that can correct their course after launch or just lasers (and I mean the real light kind, not the slow moving bullet type you see in movies).
Maybe the first challenge could already be spotting the enemy with your sensors, kinda like sub warfare.
Tom Clancy's HAWX managed to make plane combat with guided missiles fun. The tricky part is to fly in a way that confuses the enemy missile's guidance and makes it fly past you harmlessly while also launching your missiles in a vector that makes them likely to hit the target (either dead frontal while praying that the enemy doesn't dodge or from the rear).
Elite didn't have it? Only the sequels did, I'm not sure how well those did compared to the original.
I thought the "jump" button just caused a time skip, not a physical jump...
Wouldn't he need to know either the plaintext or the key to put any useful data into that fraudtext result?
MS has a tendency to settle with patent trolls for a bit of money and an order to attack the competition.
Rocket propelled dump trucks.
Presumably the robot wasn't the only one ever to handle that book.
Corruption? When all the people in charge are on one mob or another's payroll they're not going to WANT fixing that problem.
"Accidentally" spill that toxic waste into their jail cells, let them experience the fun of radiation death.
Depends, if you just need a few buttons they're more comfortable to hit on a gamepad (using both hands on the keyboard in some games makes me cramp up, I think it's the low position of the arrow keys on the keyboard which mean my wrist no longer rests on my wrist rest) and sometimes analog sticks are useful for movement (e.g. when driving a car that doesn't take kindly to having its controls go from zero to 100% to zero again when you want to make small corrections). Melee based games rarely benefit from mouse control as you don't have to do much aiming while you do have to switch between different buttons with the right timing.
It's a bit different from, say, Photoshop because that's an application, not an OS. Photoshop is not security critical and can be replaced on a computer without needing any major changes, just uninstall and throw the new version on it. Replacing the OS means reinstalling everything that is on the system and a major amount of work plus a quite large risk that something will break (especially old software that's uyed on the computer but not compatible with the latest Windows OS).
huge hits recently such as Bioshock and Mass Effect show pretty clearly that a good plot, solid setting, and good graphics are key to a blockbuster game.
And Wii Fit shows quite the opposite...
"before multiplayer"? Weren't both Space War and Pong multiplayer-only?