People are still going to ignore all the retractions from the real medical and scientific community in favor of Jenny McCarthy saying on TV that "Vaccines gave my baby autism!"
Actually, I've been able to do this several times already and it is quite useful (though really only easy to do when the portals are on the wall as opposed to ceiling/floor).
Basically, you shoot a blue portal at your target (T) from just outside your blue portal, then back through immediately after firing. Then, you can go through your orange portal to the new blue portal at your target point. You can even do this if your blue portal is on a sheer wall with no platform under the portal.
1. Suck up to the RIAA/MPAA.
2. Suck up to the large tech firms.
3. Make meaningless promises to support "the greater interests of the public with regards to technological issues".
4. "Think of the children!" to restrict our freedoms further.
3. Rake in the campaign contributions for next term while screwing America in the present.
The only way I can figure that wrestling counts as "Science Fiction" is that the matches and storylines are the fiction part and the science part refers to all the work that went into creating the steroids the wrestlers consume.
When I worked at the college computer service center (1.5-3 years ago), we had several problems when we sent Apple laptops (both Powerbooks and iBooks) into their service center to be worked on. About 1 in 10 machines we sent in would come back with either the same problem (only worse) or would have some new issue crop up when we ran diagnostics on it to see if it was safe to return to the customer. With these machines, we'd have to mail them back to the Apple service center and hope they didn't mess things up a 2nd or 3rd time (they occassionally did). This could go on for a few weeks or up to a month in some cases and resulted in cranky students and faculty.
However, when we could service the Apple machines (desktops and minor laptop work) ourselves and order the parts from Apple, we received the parts parts promptly and could usually get the machines back to the customer in a few days to a week or so. If you can do the work yourself, try and do so if at all possible so you don't have to worry about dealing with their service centers.
There are several roleplaying corporations or alliances in Eve Online, but you often have to seek them out to roleplay with them, as opposed to having roleplaying all around you in a certain area. Examples that come to mind are Curatores Veritatis Alliance (Religious Zealot Amarr Slaveowners), Ushra'Khan (Minmatar Freedom Fighters (many ex-slaves) who are in a mutual war with CVA), and the former Sani'Kal'Vecna (roleplayed as literally bloodthirsty Amarr pirates). While the Amarr vs. Minmatar conflict gets the most roleplaying attention, most factions have a corp or two dedicated to roleplaying them.
For instance, no matter how skilled a player, a 6 month player will always perish to a 4 year player.
This is actually wrong. Eve's skill system is set up on diminishing returns. For each of the 5 levels of a skill, the amount of time spent to train each level increases drastically. So while someone might have trained a skill to level 5 for 2% bonus at each level, a younger player might have trained it up to level 4 and only be 2% behind on the particular skill.
Ship fittings and player tactics also play a great deal into who wins a combat as well. Even if you're outskilled by an older player, get a friend or two to come and help you fight, and you will often have a great chance of overwhelming the older player and killing him, even if he's in a Battleship and the three of you are in Battlecruisers or Cruisers.
Server is a misnomer in this case. The word you're searching for is "shard". WoW is made up of dozens of shards (what you're thinking of as servers) where people on different shards can't interact with each other. Eve is ONE shard, and everyone plays on the same overall "server". So basically, there can be 30000+ people playing on the server/shard at the same time, all affecting each other.
Sure, all it takes in Eve is time and dedication, until you get your butt kicked by someone with fewer skillpoints and a smaller ship, but more tactical acumen and skill. If you're saying you don't need skill or tactics to win in Eve, you're vastly wrong.
It's like George Lucas baptized the developers with a mixture of Jar Jar's saliva and Anakin's emo tears. That's the only way I can explain how bad it's gotten.
I started playing this at 2 AM on a Saturday night with the lights off, thinking it wasn't going to be bad. I was busy running around until I heard something yelling "Kill me! NyaaaAAGGH! *whack*". I turn around and nearly jump out of my chair as this crazy hybrid is beating me with a wrench.
After another hour of the game, I was looking over my shoulder in real life every few minutes to ensure no hybrids were after me.
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People are still going to ignore all the retractions from the real medical and scientific community in favor of Jenny McCarthy saying on TV that "Vaccines gave my baby autism!"
There are two times a man is allowed to cry. Once at his mother's funeral and the other at the end of Jurassic Bark.
You could probably nail the school for possession of child pornography.
EVE is run from Bellevue, WA.
EVE Online is actually run from Reykjavik, Iceland (a London datacenter provides the hosting).
You sunk my dataship!
Once we have this treatment available for humans, Slashdotters will no longer be afraid of women!
Actually, I've been able to do this several times already and it is quite useful (though really only easy to do when the portals are on the wall as opposed to ceiling/floor).
Basically, you shoot a blue portal at your target (T) from just outside your blue portal, then back through immediately after firing. Then, you can go through your orange portal to the new blue portal at your target point. You can even do this if your blue portal is on a sheer wall with no platform under the portal.
T ------ B || O
...stuff you already have bookmarked?
Yes, xkcd is awesome, but I hope this is not going to be a thrice weekly post every time a new strip is posted.
A British politician is sure to say: "If 10,000 cameras don't work, let's just double the amount of cameras! That's sure to make crime go down!"
1. Suck up to the RIAA/MPAA.
2. Suck up to the large tech firms.
3. Make meaningless promises to support "the greater interests of the public with regards to technological issues".
4. "Think of the children!" to restrict our freedoms further.
3. Rake in the campaign contributions for next term while screwing America in the present.
The only way I can figure that wrestling counts as "Science Fiction" is that the matches and storylines are the fiction part and the science part refers to all the work that went into creating the steroids the wrestlers consume.
Maybe if we treat robots well now, maybe Skynet will decide not to nuke us when it gains sentience.
Is it time to begin a series of arguments over whether we've hit Peak Uranium yet?
When I worked at the college computer service center (1.5-3 years ago), we had several problems when we sent Apple laptops (both Powerbooks and iBooks) into their service center to be worked on. About 1 in 10 machines we sent in would come back with either the same problem (only worse) or would have some new issue crop up when we ran diagnostics on it to see if it was safe to return to the customer. With these machines, we'd have to mail them back to the Apple service center and hope they didn't mess things up a 2nd or 3rd time (they occassionally did). This could go on for a few weeks or up to a month in some cases and resulted in cranky students and faculty.
However, when we could service the Apple machines (desktops and minor laptop work) ourselves and order the parts from Apple, we received the parts parts promptly and could usually get the machines back to the customer in a few days to a week or so. If you can do the work yourself, try and do so if at all possible so you don't have to worry about dealing with their service centers.
There are several roleplaying corporations or alliances in Eve Online, but you often have to seek them out to roleplay with them, as opposed to having roleplaying all around you in a certain area. Examples that come to mind are Curatores Veritatis Alliance (Religious Zealot Amarr Slaveowners), Ushra'Khan (Minmatar Freedom Fighters (many ex-slaves) who are in a mutual war with CVA), and the former Sani'Kal'Vecna (roleplayed as literally bloodthirsty Amarr pirates). While the Amarr vs. Minmatar conflict gets the most roleplaying attention, most factions have a corp or two dedicated to roleplaying them.
For instance, no matter how skilled a player, a 6 month player will always perish to a 4 year player.
This is actually wrong. Eve's skill system is set up on diminishing returns. For each of the 5 levels of a skill, the amount of time spent to train each level increases drastically. So while someone might have trained a skill to level 5 for 2% bonus at each level, a younger player might have trained it up to level 4 and only be 2% behind on the particular skill.
Ship fittings and player tactics also play a great deal into who wins a combat as well. Even if you're outskilled by an older player, get a friend or two to come and help you fight, and you will often have a great chance of overwhelming the older player and killing him, even if he's in a Battleship and the three of you are in Battlecruisers or Cruisers.
Server is a misnomer in this case. The word you're searching for is "shard". WoW is made up of dozens of shards (what you're thinking of as servers) where people on different shards can't interact with each other. Eve is ONE shard, and everyone plays on the same overall "server". So basically, there can be 30000+ people playing on the server/shard at the same time, all affecting each other.
Sure, all it takes in Eve is time and dedication, until you get your butt kicked by someone with fewer skillpoints and a smaller ship, but more tactical acumen and skill. If you're saying you don't need skill or tactics to win in Eve, you're vastly wrong.
So, what you're saying is that you have multiple personalities?
It's like George Lucas baptized the developers with a mixture of Jar Jar's saliva and Anakin's emo tears. That's the only way I can explain how bad it's gotten.
Catastrophic climate change means there'll be a mass kill off of humanity, which means more oil for the survivors!
No preemptive mention of the Phantom? What kind of crappy list is this?
It's an alien transportation portal!
I for one welcome our gas giant portal-creating overlords and any new cliches they can teach us!
He's saying that if you don't vote, then you don't have the right to complain.
If you do vote and your candidate loses, then you have the right to complain about the winner, election fraud, other people that didn't vote, etc.
I started playing this at 2 AM on a Saturday night with the lights off, thinking it wasn't going to be bad. I was busy running around until I heard something yelling "Kill me! NyaaaAAGGH! *whack*". I turn around and nearly jump out of my chair as this crazy hybrid is beating me with a wrench.
After another hour of the game, I was looking over my shoulder in real life every few minutes to ensure no hybrids were after me.