Bull. Shit. Counter-Strike Source had 93,500 people playing it when I checked last sunday. CS1.6 had another 69,000 people playing. TF2'd got 19,400 and l4d was in fourth place with 16,600 players.
All told valve had ~200,000 people playing just their top four games at 10:00AM on a freakin sunday. Call of Duty 4 regularly has less players than a HL2 mod (insurgency specifically) and barely beats it by a dozen or so players other times.
PC gamers are not utterly worthless, they are not a nonexistant or marginal market, and they are not a dying breed. IW/Activision and companies like them are just trying desperately to convince the world that the egg of poor-PC sales laid the chicken of shitty ports and consolization and not the other way around.
If you're going to troll this obviously (Outstrip the supply? Of something that reproduces indefinately in a lab? REALLY?) you can go spend 3 minutes on google inbetween ad hominems.
Here's some random starter articles just from 30 seconds on google. My citation is "GO fucking google it", i'm not your nanny. You're supposedly an adult, put some of that to use and actually research something instead of expecting everyone to hand it to you on a silver platter even when you bring nothing to the table but "I disagree, you are a liar!" without any proof yourself.
It was a two sentence post and you STILL couldn't read enough of even the first sentence to realise how much you've just embarassed yourself.
That first year textbook will also tell you that embryonic stem cells are now harvested just fine without causing any harm to viable embryos and are otherwise acquired from ALREADY DISCARDED and nonviable embryos. Basically ones that would be destroyed either way.
So no, it doesn't require the destruction of an embryo any more than recycling newspaper's people have already thrown out requires the destruction of trees. But go right on ahead living in voluntary ignorance. What's next, justifying bombing an abortion clinic?
Also, it's not my question, click the little button in my post that says "parent".
Yeah, 85hz or higher refresh rates on a crisp clear display with a sizeable amount more space than those laggy/blurry LCDs was terrible. I hate mine so much, I want something that can only run one resolution (badly) and smears like an oil painting whenever I scroll.
Because of course blocking a program the user chose to install is completely comparable to a program the user chose to install blocking a plugin they didn't choose to install or even knew had installed and was just as difficult to get rid of as most malware.
is there really any reason to be against embryonic stem cells now that they can be harvested without embryo destruction, or are made from sources that would be completely discarded anyway? Really, if we could move some of the less informed political activists for less wharrgarbl we could do a lot more with both types of stem cells.
I think you need to play Rush again, it likes to take those run sequences and stick a booster right in front of an instant-kill trap primed so you die instantly if you don't dodge it (and usually the boost), they also like to keep throwing enemies in the middle of spring chains and other sequences where you're vulnerable.
Or in nintendo and sega's case they usually start with the casual side and then throw in absurd cheap shots. If I go back and play the classic SMB games I feel like it's my fault when I die most of the time. NSMB on the DS was just universally a problem of bad controls (handling), shitty clipping, and even worse true cheap shots of things appearing inside you. The only modern game I've played that's bigger on memorization encouraging cheap shots is Sonic Rush.
The point of a casino is that they make money by running games of chance where the odds are in favor of the house. Card counters are just a scapegoat used by casinos to get rid of anyone they want with an accusation that can't be disproven.
All this system does it automate the already extremely easy process of detecting someone that doesn't fail miserably at blackjack and give them an even better "computers don't lie" excuse to get rid of that person.
So it would create a larger duration of space where it existed due to a negative volume? Combine that with someone else suggesting a negative mass also having a negative inertia and I think I just had an aneurism.
Would they though? Assume a negative mass which still has a positive volume. If you use the (probably way oversimplified) model of positive mass objects acting like a lead ball on a rubber sheet in space you'd wind up with negative mass objects pinching it and pulling it upwards.
The concept isn't foreign but the idea of an object with a negative mass but positive volume starts to have wierd implications for things like trying to hold it.
it's not that it doesn't helped anyone in any context, there's plenty of situations where obscurity was much better than publicity (any military example comes to mind), the problem is that obscurity simply is not actually security at all.
Obscurity is obscurity, and while you sometimes want obscurity, it's very unhealthy to confuse obscurity with security in an overall sense.
Except that adds a whole new level of complication and liability onto things as people will always be trying (and successfully finding) ways to get around such a moderation system and all it takes is one frosty piss getting through to render the whole thing pointless.
it's much better imho to simple leave it at "Multiplayer involves interacting with other humans you don't know anything about and have no control over, do so at your own risk." rather than giving some false sense of security.
Every time someone takes their kids outside they run the risk of those kids being exposed to god knows what, I don't see how online experiences are any different.
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jesus you get 10mbps? I live right on top of orlando and I'm lucky enough I can get 3mbps instead of 1.5 or less.
Bull. Shit. Counter-Strike Source had 93,500 people playing it when I checked last sunday. CS1.6 had another 69,000 people playing. TF2'd got 19,400 and l4d was in fourth place with 16,600 players.
All told valve had ~200,000 people playing just their top four games at 10:00AM on a freakin sunday. Call of Duty 4 regularly has less players than a HL2 mod (insurgency specifically) and barely beats it by a dozen or so players other times.
PC gamers are not utterly worthless, they are not a nonexistant or marginal market, and they are not a dying breed. IW/Activision and companies like them are just trying desperately to convince the world that the egg of poor-PC sales laid the chicken of shitty ports and consolization and not the other way around.
Initially got a bashing? It's still getting a bashing because it removes the ability to choose a decent low-pinging server for yourself.
If you're going to troll this obviously (Outstrip the supply? Of something that reproduces indefinately in a lab? REALLY?) you can go spend 3 minutes on google inbetween ad hominems.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22594571/
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1017/p02s01-ussc.html
Here's some random starter articles just from 30 seconds on google. My citation is "GO fucking google it", i'm not your nanny. You're supposedly an adult, put some of that to use and actually research something instead of expecting everyone to hand it to you on a silver platter even when you bring nothing to the table but "I disagree, you are a liar!" without any proof yourself.
It was a two sentence post and you STILL couldn't read enough of even the first sentence to realise how much you've just embarassed yourself.
That first year textbook will also tell you that embryonic stem cells are now harvested just fine without causing any harm to viable embryos and are otherwise acquired from ALREADY DISCARDED and nonviable embryos. Basically ones that would be destroyed either way.
So no, it doesn't require the destruction of an embryo any more than recycling newspaper's people have already thrown out requires the destruction of trees. But go right on ahead living in voluntary ignorance. What's next, justifying bombing an abortion clinic?
Also, it's not my question, click the little button in my post that says "parent".
Yeah, 85hz or higher refresh rates on a crisp clear display with a sizeable amount more space than those laggy/blurry LCDs was terrible. I hate mine so much, I want something that can only run one resolution (badly) and smears like an oil painting whenever I scroll.
This... is why I'm an FPS gamer. It doesn't usually get more complicated than "loud end points at the other guy".
Because of course blocking a program the user chose to install is completely comparable to a program the user chose to install blocking a plugin they didn't choose to install or even knew had installed and was just as difficult to get rid of as most malware.
We're one step closer to tentacle-rape robots. Just pray to god the japanese don't get hold of this.
I think we have too many big-boned girls already...
is there really any reason to be against embryonic stem cells now that they can be harvested without embryo destruction, or are made from sources that would be completely discarded anyway? Really, if we could move some of the less informed political activists for less wharrgarbl we could do a lot more with both types of stem cells.
Babylon 5 nerd here, it's obviously The Worm.
I think you need to play Rush again, it likes to take those run sequences and stick a booster right in front of an instant-kill trap primed so you die instantly if you don't dodge it (and usually the boost), they also like to keep throwing enemies in the middle of spring chains and other sequences where you're vulnerable.
Or in nintendo and sega's case they usually start with the casual side and then throw in absurd cheap shots. If I go back and play the classic SMB games I feel like it's my fault when I die most of the time. NSMB on the DS was just universally a problem of bad controls (handling), shitty clipping, and even worse true cheap shots of things appearing inside you. The only modern game I've played that's bigger on memorization encouraging cheap shots is Sonic Rush.
Sounds about right.
I'd like to see an MMO that's like a cross between Hitman and The Ship, only without the pants-on-head stupid that plagued both of them.
This.
The point of a casino is that they make money by running games of chance where the odds are in favor of the house. Card counters are just a scapegoat used by casinos to get rid of anyone they want with an accusation that can't be disproven.
All this system does it automate the already extremely easy process of detecting someone that doesn't fail miserably at blackjack and give them an even better "computers don't lie" excuse to get rid of that person.
So it would create a larger duration of space where it existed due to a negative volume? Combine that with someone else suggesting a negative mass also having a negative inertia and I think I just had an aneurism.
Would they though? Assume a negative mass which still has a positive volume. If you use the (probably way oversimplified) model of positive mass objects acting like a lead ball on a rubber sheet in space you'd wind up with negative mass objects pinching it and pulling it upwards.
The concept isn't foreign but the idea of an object with a negative mass but positive volume starts to have wierd implications for things like trying to hold it.
I just tried to think about negative mass, thanks for the headache.
But online it takes one mouse click to leave a bad situation, in the real world it's a lot more difficult sometimes.
it's not that it doesn't helped anyone in any context, there's plenty of situations where obscurity was much better than publicity (any military example comes to mind), the problem is that obscurity simply is not actually security at all.
Obscurity is obscurity, and while you sometimes want obscurity, it's very unhealthy to confuse obscurity with security in an overall sense.
Except that adds a whole new level of complication and liability onto things as people will always be trying (and successfully finding) ways to get around such a moderation system and all it takes is one frosty piss getting through to render the whole thing pointless.
it's much better imho to simple leave it at "Multiplayer involves interacting with other humans you don't know anything about and have no control over, do so at your own risk." rather than giving some false sense of security.
Every time someone takes their kids outside they run the risk of those kids being exposed to god knows what, I don't see how online experiences are any different.
Fancy's got the parentage bars, makes it so much easier to keep track of.