They should consider using Gamemaker instead as it's much more powerful and a lot cheaper (Free for Lite version and $40 for full version versus $120 for AgentSheets)
I bought a couple of those since I don't want cable or satelite tv and discovered to my dismay that they are full of DRM! Anything I try to record with my VCR or PC from them gets scrambled heavily. We need to stop this push for DTV! Heck, when you buy one of those converter boxes, the store locks the serial number to your name and most places that sell them won't let you return them either. Its a total scam by several corporations and the US government.
One caveat about the movie: bring Dramamine. Lots of it. I had two friends with me who missed the whole second half of the movie because they couldn't look at the screen.
I hear that. Right after watching it, I was outside the theater, barfing in a trashcan. However, I wasn't sure if it was the shakeyness of the movie or the crusty theater hotdog I had eaten. Perhaps a little of both.
It could be worse, we could all be forced to use SCSI devices instead. That had a ton of port styles and shapes as well as internal and external versions of each. Also, you had to daisy chain your devices, secure them with a screwdriver/your fingers, configure each with its own ID number and make sure the end of the chain was terminated properly. Then to top it off, cables, adapters, and terminators were insanely expensive. I'd swear that every time I bought a new SCSI device that it was like playing a puzzle game like Tetris with cables/ports instead of block in hopes that I wouldn't have to go back to the store and shell out $30 or more for an adapter or cable. Sheesh. I don't miss that at all...:P
From the article, they seemed to make one of their first points about him asking about Kerry and Bush being 'brothers' in the 'Skull and Bones'. It makes me wonder if they are using that to try to make him (the student) look like some crazy conspiracy theorist or perhaps push that conspiracy theory out into the open.
#1 Rule of Skull & Bones is that you do not talk about it (otherwise we have you tasered or most likely in my case, modded into oblivion):P
They should have the online Co-op mode borrow the technique that MMORPGs use and have a server keep track of the players and send the appropriate info to each of them as they progress. Since cost could be an issue, perhaps they could offer that feature to Gold members only (another can of worms I suppose). Or they could have one player's machine act as the server/host but that could cause quite a performance hit.
When sending any signal, they need to consider that the signal grows weaker the further it travels. This is obvious with 3-dimensional travel but when adding that 4th dimension, it degragates exponentially. They also need to consider the displacement that occurs as well. Obviously, the Earth is not in the same exact place a few seconds ago as it is now. As such, they would need to conpensate for that as well. They should also consider that there is bound to be interference by all of the signals bouncing around these days and should use an untouched frequency. And finally, they should have the reciever up and running way BEFORE they ever attempt to send that signal.
As for avoiding paradoxes, I would suggest creating the message/recording/whatever and sending it to a point before it was sent but AFTER it was created. Also, they would need to have the device set up to send the signal no matter what, where transmission cannot be interupted after reception. Otherwise, the paradox will stop the reception from ever happening. I like to think of paradoxes as time's way of fixing itself by fizzling out/destroying such events from ever occuring. I would best describe one as a trick knot in a string (time) where each time the loop reoccurs (from happening to not happening to happening, etc) the string tightens and the loop shrinks until it 'pops' out of existance and the experiment fails. If scientists can avoid causing a paradox, their experiment will be a success otherwise time itself will adjust to keep it from happening at all.
First off, I'd like to mention that I grew up reading comic books and love the seeing superheroes in movies and on TV. However, I fear that a show like this will bring this superhero trend to the tipping point of saturation and it will collapse much like a few years ago with the zombie trend. I really dont want to see the one good thing that emerged from this trend (Heroes on NBC) to get canned because of market saturation caused by creating yet another superhero show.
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They should consider using Gamemaker instead as it's much more powerful and a lot cheaper (Free for Lite version and $40 for full version versus $120 for AgentSheets)
Zuckerberg has been watching waaay too much Dexter and is now practicing becoming a serial killer....
But then, I also think that he is the Anti-Christ...
Bubble Domes!
S.A.N.T.A. is really a giant super computer located at the North Pole that was built by the "League of Corporations for World Domination".
S.A.N.T.A. broadcasts signals into parents minds and makes them do its bidding in order to perpetuate the legend of its existence.
this will be the thinnest condom ever!
Ahh and being made of graphite, it will be perfect for guys with pencil dicks.. :-P
It happens from letting the Earth idle for too long.
I'm sure if it idles for too much longer after the SkySaver kicks in, the Sky will just go into standby mode and go blank...
I bought a couple of those since I don't want cable or satelite tv and discovered to my dismay that they are full of DRM! Anything I try to record with my VCR or PC from them gets scrambled heavily. We need to stop this push for DTV! Heck, when you buy one of those converter boxes, the store locks the serial number to your name and most places that sell them won't let you return them either. Its a total scam by several corporations and the US government.
One caveat about the movie: bring Dramamine. Lots of it. I had two friends with me who missed the whole second half of the movie because they couldn't look at the screen.
I hear that. Right after watching it, I was outside the theater, barfing in a trashcan. However, I wasn't sure if it was the shakeyness of the movie or the crusty theater hotdog I had eaten. Perhaps a little of both.
It could be worse, we could all be forced to use SCSI devices instead. That had a ton of port styles and shapes as well as internal and external versions of each. Also, you had to daisy chain your devices, secure them with a screwdriver/your fingers, configure each with its own ID number and make sure the end of the chain was terminated properly. Then to top it off, cables, adapters, and terminators were insanely expensive. I'd swear that every time I bought a new SCSI device that it was like playing a puzzle game like Tetris with cables/ports instead of block in hopes that I wouldn't have to go back to the store and shell out $30 or more for an adapter or cable. Sheesh. I don't miss that at all... :P
From the article, they seemed to make one of their first points about him asking about Kerry and Bush being 'brothers' in the 'Skull and Bones'. It makes me wonder if they are using that to try to make him (the student) look like some crazy conspiracy theorist or perhaps push that conspiracy theory out into the open.
:P
#1 Rule of Skull & Bones is that you do not talk about it
(otherwise we have you tasered or most likely in my case, modded into oblivion)
I say that they need to get this stuff over to Yucca Mountain as soon as possible....
Apparently Laptop Batteries are the new Thermite or now made of thermite...
When questioned about his use of 'Alternative Web Browsers', former president, Bill Clinton said, "I downloaded but I didn't install...."
</Bad Joke>
They should have the online Co-op mode borrow the technique that MMORPGs use and have a server keep track of the players and send the appropriate info to each of them as they progress. Since cost could be an issue, perhaps they could offer that feature to Gold members only (another can of worms I suppose). Or they could have one player's machine act as the server/host but that could cause quite a performance hit.
When sending any signal, they need to consider that the signal grows weaker the further it travels. This is obvious with 3-dimensional travel but when adding that 4th dimension, it degragates exponentially. They also need to consider the displacement that occurs as well. Obviously, the Earth is not in the same exact place a few seconds ago as it is now. As such, they would need to conpensate for that as well. They should also consider that there is bound to be interference by all of the signals bouncing around these days and should use an untouched frequency. And finally, they should have the reciever up and running way BEFORE they ever attempt to send that signal.
As for avoiding paradoxes, I would suggest creating the message/recording/whatever and sending it to a point before it was sent but AFTER it was created. Also, they would need to have the device set up to send the signal no matter what, where transmission cannot be interupted after reception. Otherwise, the paradox will stop the reception from ever happening. I like to think of paradoxes as time's way of fixing itself by fizzling out/destroying such events from ever occuring. I would best describe one as a trick knot in a string (time) where each time the loop reoccurs (from happening to not happening to happening, etc) the string tightens and the loop shrinks until it 'pops' out of existance and the experiment fails. If scientists can avoid causing a paradox, their experiment will be a success otherwise time itself will adjust to keep it from happening at all.
created by a man named Linicus Torvaldus....
First off, I'd like to mention that I grew up reading comic books and love the seeing superheroes in movies and on TV. However, I fear that a show like this will bring this superhero trend to the tipping point of saturation and it will collapse much like a few years ago with the zombie trend. I really dont want to see the one good thing that emerged from this trend (Heroes on NBC) to get canned because of market saturation caused by creating yet another superhero show.
Inference: She saw what she thought was a pack of wolves when in fact it was a three headed wolf.
Was its name Cerberus?
but someone kept shooting at the window....
It's just AH-Nold in a diaper....
:-P
The things a guy will do to get some attention...
DEFINITELY good news...
DEFINITELY cool....
DEFINITELY....
Joke DEFINITELY over....
I wonder what would happen if we placed a rather large mirror far out into space that we could look at via telescope...
Would we see into our own past?
Does this 'parasite' happen to look like a black ooze?
As an American, I'm 'supposed' to hate the French and yet as a computer geek, I'm 'supposed' to hate Micro$oft...
:-P
But...apparently I am of the Generation called X so I choose apathy..
MEH!
Thank goodness that we got rid of the 'half cent' coin....
:-P
Imagine scrounging up 200 of those to make a dollar...