No one said it'd be going at 25 Gs. I'd bet most people would give before 15, and it wouldn't be all at once, they can slowly accelerate them to get the same effect. All this about a joke anyway...
Is it not generally assumed that when talking about units of garvity and it's not specified otherwise, it's the Earth's gravity that they're using? I'm sorry, but I'm betting that anyone who read that and thought they were talking about the gravity on Mars is on Crack.
It dosn't leave any bruises or marks either. So those pesky human rights people don't have evidence against you... unless some dumbass takes pictures that is.
So because you think keeping it secret is impossible, we shouldn't even try? That's like saying, The opposing football team will watch footage of our games and figure out our plays, so we might as well just send them a copy. They may figure out some things in those ways, but there are safeguards against that and that's no reason to give them all the answers. That's just stupid. The problem with all of this is balancing oversight with secrecy. Without secrecy about what they are doing to track down terrorists, the things they are doing are useless, as the terrorists will know what to avoid. On the other hand, people are worried about these methods being used to track down the terrorists being used on them. I can see where these people are coming from, I think they may be slightly paranoid, but they do have a valid point. In the end, it comes down to which is more necessary; security against terrorism, or the security of our freedoms. My personal opinion is that you have no freedoms if you're dead. If we let our guard down, 9-11 events will become commonplace. I assume you've heard of the near daily bombings in Iraq and frequent terrorist attacks in Israel. This can happen here too. We are not immune. Without the safeguards that people are worried infringe on their freedom, it will happen. There have been many terrorist plots foiled using these safeguards, but you don't hear about them for the most part. Information is the most valuable resource in the world; only a fool will give it to his enemies for free.
$400 for the 360 as it is is pushing the price point, there are gaming quality PC's that are around the same price and they can do 10x as much as the system
I call bullshit. Oblivion runs acceptably only on the latest PCs with pricy graphics cards and fast CPUs. On top of this, it runs beautifully on the 360 with no lag and only occasional waiting for a new area to load. I have a feeling a $400 computer would be able to run it at all. Lets see, on Newegg, the best graphics card that comes on a $400 computer is the S3 UniChrome Pro.
Actually, I was going to buy the PC version, but it was sold out when I went to get it. Woe to me, Target had 360s for SRP available and I ended up spending $500 instead of $50. Anyways, everything I've heard about the PC version is that it's buggy and runs slow on anything but the latest and greatest hardware. I haven't had any of the problems I've heard about with the 360 version. It runs beautifully and after finishing all of the Mages, Thieves, Dark Brotherhood, and Arena quests, and making LVL 23, I have run into 0 bugs with the quests. The leveling system seems to work great. Nothing like what I hear about the PC version. GRAW is also an awesome game for the 360. While I wish it included the features of single player in the multiplayer as everything that distinguishes it from other FPSs is left out, it is still a very good game.
Have you played Oblivion? In the game I've been playing, I'm LVL 23 yet I see rats still. They're the same rats I fought at the begining of the game, only they die in one hit instead of five now. The Creature leveling that's done in Oblivion is that now I see Brown Bears, Liches, and other monsters as well. Things that are still a challenge for my LVL 23 Stealth/Fighter. You see the full range of monsters that you can handle. There are other NPCs that level up with you, but they are usually bosses or something simular. Honestly, I haven't goten very far in the main quest, but I'm Listener of the Dark Brotherhood, Arch-Mage of the Mages Guild, Champion of the Arena, and Master of the Thieves Guild. I've finished many of the normal quests that you get just from talking to people as well. Through all of that, I haven't seen a single bug or glitch. Now I may be incredibly lucky, but I doubt I could do all of that without discovering one of the myrid bugs you have been talking about. I will admit that my current combination of an expert sneak skill, a master blade skill, and a self enchanted set of armor that gives me 120% chamealeon is making things pretty easy for me now. But if I want more of a challenge, I turn the difficulty up or take some of the armor off.
PS2s shipped with two diffrent clock speeds. The original had 294MHz and later versions had 299MHz. It's not new, it produced no issues when Sony did it then, why would it now with the newer 360?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS2#Technical_specifi cations
Even though it's Interesting, this is a perfect example of the lack of reguard the Media has for national security. I'm glad they found out about the thumb drives being stolen. It's a major problem and definately needs to be fixed. However, it draws attenion to it before the military fixed the problem. This gives any Terrorist not aware that this is going on a heads up, here's cheep classified info. I don't have a problem with them reporting on it, but wait untill the hole in security has been fixed. They also posted a LOT of sensitive information in the article. Untill they put it in the article, none of this stuff was publicly available and much of it is still classified. All told, the media has been pretty responsible lately.
They have clearance if they're working on it. It's much cheaper to hire outside people and get them clearance than to have your own staff for many things. It's also much harder to make the outside people's life miserable for messing up, so they don't care as much. Homeland Security dosn't really have access to much classified material though anyway. They don't need it, so the systems techs working on the system probably only needed a basic background check to be allowed in.
Probably 20% of my corp in EVE are actually female, actually a high rate for that game based off of CCPs estimates based on actual account information. I've met a few of them so I know it's true. There are many males who play as females as well, but they will usually tell you. I'm sure there are females who play as males. The thing is, if someone says publicly that they are female, the reaction by many male gamers is pretty strong. You could compare it to the girl showing up at the nudist beach in Euro Trip. I know there are many female gamers out there, I've been trounced by them in Halo 2 a few times and I'm pretty decent. I know many girls who were waiting in line when Kingdom Hearts 2 came out. A lot of young male gamers seem to go crazy though.
All the Pixels around it were black except for one that was white, and one next to it that was grey, 1/2 white, 1/2 black. The pixel averages everything in the space it covers. I don't know if they actually use black or white or not, but that's how it works. Does that simplify things?
As he is posting on/., and those aren't infrequent terms around here, I'd assume he had heard people posting about them here. Having read posts using the acronyms, most people can usually get an idea of the context a term they aren't familiar with just by reading/listening. Why is it that you completely dismiss someone who claims to have never used Windows and only Macs? While my office uses Windows and Linux, there are offices that only use Macs as well. If they do have a home computer, why go to a PC when they're used to using a Mac? Feel free to continue your witchhunt if you wish though.
Yes, in High School, I had that "Homework" problem as well. My solution to that was playing video games during my free time at home and sleeping during class with evenings spent next to campfires at various areas out in the middle of nowhere with other highschoolers quenching our thirst. It worked for me, I show my 3.1 GPA as proof.
Highschool these days is soo hard....
Sorry, it was actually 480i instead of 420p, I mistated that, but you're right, still not full HD. I looked up the one I have (JVC AV32S776I) and most places are pricing it around $800-900. I got it on sale, but I didn't realise I got that good of a deal. But, there is also one place you can get the 30" I linked to after S&H for $630. http://shop.pcmag.com/pages/shop_product.aspx?sf=1 &productid=24575221&ZC=68123
I don't know that seller and they may have some additional catch, but $630 is supposedly the total after Tax and S&H.
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Guinness is pretty good, but I think cherry or grape flavoured would still be better in the long run.
Ha, I could have told you that before Bill got elected ;)
No one said it'd be going at 25 Gs. I'd bet most people would give before 15, and it wouldn't be all at once, they can slowly accelerate them to get the same effect. All this about a joke anyway...
Is it not generally assumed that when talking about units of garvity and it's not specified otherwise, it's the Earth's gravity that they're using? I'm sorry, but I'm betting that anyone who read that and thought they were talking about the gravity on Mars is on Crack.
It dosn't leave any bruises or marks either. So those pesky human rights people don't have evidence against you... unless some dumbass takes pictures that is.
So because you think keeping it secret is impossible, we shouldn't even try? That's like saying, The opposing football team will watch footage of our games and figure out our plays, so we might as well just send them a copy. They may figure out some things in those ways, but there are safeguards against that and that's no reason to give them all the answers. That's just stupid. The problem with all of this is balancing oversight with secrecy. Without secrecy about what they are doing to track down terrorists, the things they are doing are useless, as the terrorists will know what to avoid. On the other hand, people are worried about these methods being used to track down the terrorists being used on them. I can see where these people are coming from, I think they may be slightly paranoid, but they do have a valid point. In the end, it comes down to which is more necessary; security against terrorism, or the security of our freedoms. My personal opinion is that you have no freedoms if you're dead. If we let our guard down, 9-11 events will become commonplace. I assume you've heard of the near daily bombings in Iraq and frequent terrorist attacks in Israel. This can happen here too. We are not immune. Without the safeguards that people are worried infringe on their freedom, it will happen. There have been many terrorist plots foiled using these safeguards, but you don't hear about them for the most part. Information is the most valuable resource in the world; only a fool will give it to his enemies for free.
$400 for the 360 as it is is pushing the price point, there are gaming quality PC's that are around the same price and they can do 10x as much as the system
I call bullshit. Oblivion runs acceptably only on the latest PCs with pricy graphics cards and fast CPUs. On top of this, it runs beautifully on the 360 with no lag and only occasional waiting for a new area to load. I have a feeling a $400 computer would be able to run it at all. Lets see, on Newegg, the best graphics card that comes on a $400 computer is the S3 UniChrome Pro.
Actually, I was going to buy the PC version, but it was sold out when I went to get it. Woe to me, Target had 360s for SRP available and I ended up spending $500 instead of $50. Anyways, everything I've heard about the PC version is that it's buggy and runs slow on anything but the latest and greatest hardware. I haven't had any of the problems I've heard about with the 360 version. It runs beautifully and after finishing all of the Mages, Thieves, Dark Brotherhood, and Arena quests, and making LVL 23, I have run into 0 bugs with the quests. The leveling system seems to work great. Nothing like what I hear about the PC version. GRAW is also an awesome game for the 360. While I wish it included the features of single player in the multiplayer as everything that distinguishes it from other FPSs is left out, it is still a very good game.
I agree. I put forward the hypothesis that the spots he is seeing is the direct result of too much coffee and not enough sleep.
Have you played Oblivion? In the game I've been playing, I'm LVL 23 yet I see rats still. They're the same rats I fought at the begining of the game, only they die in one hit instead of five now. The Creature leveling that's done in Oblivion is that now I see Brown Bears, Liches, and other monsters as well. Things that are still a challenge for my LVL 23 Stealth/Fighter. You see the full range of monsters that you can handle. There are other NPCs that level up with you, but they are usually bosses or something simular. Honestly, I haven't goten very far in the main quest, but I'm Listener of the Dark Brotherhood, Arch-Mage of the Mages Guild, Champion of the Arena, and Master of the Thieves Guild. I've finished many of the normal quests that you get just from talking to people as well. Through all of that, I haven't seen a single bug or glitch. Now I may be incredibly lucky, but I doubt I could do all of that without discovering one of the myrid bugs you have been talking about. I will admit that my current combination of an expert sneak skill, a master blade skill, and a self enchanted set of armor that gives me 120% chamealeon is making things pretty easy for me now. But if I want more of a challenge, I turn the difficulty up or take some of the armor off.
PS2s shipped with two diffrent clock speeds. The original had 294MHz and later versions had 299MHz. It's not new, it produced no issues when Sony did it then, why would it now with the newer 360? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS2#Technical_specifi cations
Even though it's Interesting, this is a perfect example of the lack of reguard the Media has for national security. I'm glad they found out about the thumb drives being stolen. It's a major problem and definately needs to be fixed. However, it draws attenion to it before the military fixed the problem. This gives any Terrorist not aware that this is going on a heads up, here's cheep classified info. I don't have a problem with them reporting on it, but wait untill the hole in security has been fixed. They also posted a LOT of sensitive information in the article. Untill they put it in the article, none of this stuff was publicly available and much of it is still classified. All told, the media has been pretty responsible lately.
A brand new article with new info. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-f g-disks13apr13,1,5101806.story?coll=la-headlines-w orld
Hey... So I could become rich and powerful just like Bill Gates did, but still have the second one in reserve for entrance to heaven! I'm all for it!
They have clearance if they're working on it. It's much cheaper to hire outside people and get them clearance than to have your own staff for many things. It's also much harder to make the outside people's life miserable for messing up, so they don't care as much. Homeland Security dosn't really have access to much classified material though anyway. They don't need it, so the systems techs working on the system probably only needed a basic background check to be allowed in.
Probably 20% of my corp in EVE are actually female, actually a high rate for that game based off of CCPs estimates based on actual account information. I've met a few of them so I know it's true. There are many males who play as females as well, but they will usually tell you. I'm sure there are females who play as males. The thing is, if someone says publicly that they are female, the reaction by many male gamers is pretty strong. You could compare it to the girl showing up at the nudist beach in Euro Trip. I know there are many female gamers out there, I've been trounced by them in Halo 2 a few times and I'm pretty decent. I know many girls who were waiting in line when Kingdom Hearts 2 came out. A lot of young male gamers seem to go crazy though.
All the Pixels around it were black except for one that was white, and one next to it that was grey, 1/2 white, 1/2 black. The pixel averages everything in the space it covers. I don't know if they actually use black or white or not, but that's how it works. Does that simplify things?
As he is posting on /., and those aren't infrequent terms around here, I'd assume he had heard people posting about them here. Having read posts using the acronyms, most people can usually get an idea of the context a term they aren't familiar with just by reading/listening. Why is it that you completely dismiss someone who claims to have never used Windows and only Macs? While my office uses Windows and Linux, there are offices that only use Macs as well. If they do have a home computer, why go to a PC when they're used to using a Mac?
Feel free to continue your witchhunt if you wish though.
Yes, in High School, I had that "Homework" problem as well. My solution to that was playing video games during my free time at home and sleeping during class with evenings spent next to campfires at various areas out in the middle of nowhere with other highschoolers quenching our thirst. It worked for me, I show my 3.1 GPA as proof. Highschool these days is soo hard....
Girls, friends, socializing? What are these things you're talking about? Oh, you must mean they're moving from console games to MMORPGs!
Do you wear mittens while gaming often?
Lets see if you still say that when you're 128 :)
I just bought a Premium 360 from Target Monday. They're around if you take the time to look.
You're 128 Years old and are able to keep up with /.? What's your secret?
Sorry, it was actually 480i instead of 420p, I mistated that, but you're right, still not full HD. I looked up the one I have (JVC AV32S776I) and most places are pricing it around $800-900. I got it on sale, but I didn't realise I got that good of a deal. But, there is also one place you can get the 30" I linked to after S&H for $630. http://shop.pcmag.com/pages/shop_product.aspx?sf=1 &productid=24575221&ZC=68123
I don't know that seller and they may have some additional catch, but $630 is supposedly the total after Tax and S&H.