But in these tough times, the scammers said, they are relying more on a crucial tool: voodoo. At times, Banjo said, he has traveled six hours to the forest, where a magician sells scam-boosters. A $300 powder supposedly helps scammers "speak with authority" when demanding payment. A powder, rubbed on the face, reportedly makes victims viewing the scammer through webcams powerless to say no.
Starcraft has incredible depth and lots of emergent gameplay. My brother bought the game nearly 10 years ago and has played it on and off to this day. He's been playing a lot on ICCUP(an unofficial server that the good players use for ranked play and to avoid hackers) since he has graduated an is jobless. He is undoubtedly better than me and wins 9 out of 10 times, which made it all the more satisfying when I 5pooled him(a rush) and left him in a hissy fit(he doesn't take losing well).
I particularly like that there are so many different strategies in starcraft, you can take a very unconventional/high risk strategy, and if executed decently have a good chance of success.
Oh wow, my eyes glazed over the sentence the sentenced that had "serious text processing" in it. I am not very familiar with Forth so the next part seemed plausible. Finally my tired eyes spotted an anomaly; surely Java/Swing is on par if not more "well supported" than Perl/Tk. But the comment said +4 insightful my mind protested! Oh wait a second, whats this? It's bad analogy guy! I've seen his comments before I remember, amused at how I had caught the joke just barely before it passed over my head.
(A look at the 6 other comments here shows that there was plenty of *whoosh* to go around though)
The only fork that will work at this point is one that has laxer deletionist/notability standards. Notability could be determined by weather the article has a potential audience, not weather it meets some arbitrary standard of notability. Same with citation requirements, sections of an article that are contested would be marked as such, but not necessarily removed.
I came here to gripe about wine. While it is definitely a cool piece of software I think people way overstate its abilities. For instance, I've read many many times that wine works perfectly with starcraft. The wine website itself rates it "Gold" which according to them means "Applications that work flawlessly with some special configuration". And yet anyone who has tried to use starcraft on Linux would know that that the multiplayer(the reason people still play sc) is unusable due to acknowledged graphical bugs and lag(YMMV on this).
Starcraft is not a stand alone example from my experience. I would say anything not on the list of 76 programs that "work flawlessly, no configuration", are likely to be unusable. Unfortunately software is not like a glass of milk. A program that only works 50% of the time is bad, while milk is delicious no matter how much of it you have.
Yea, this game is pretty ancient.
Lag is a huge problem for their multi-player online play, they do a lot to counter it(like path prediction and a white lag triangle to indicate where your opponent might actually be), but its still just barely playable when everyone is using broadband and there aren't any lag spikes or dropped packets. I imagine this game is a lot funner over a LAN.
Also, even though I've always been a game play before graphics guy, the graphics need some TLC.
I was a bit confused as to how America's Army could be educational(it's a pretty run of the mill FPS, similar to CS, with a lot of U.S military "atmosphere" to it). However it seems that they plan to expand a little bit for this education initiative.
The first educational module will be incorporated into the PLTW Principles of Engineering course. Students will use the America's Army gaming technology to explore kinematics in a ballistics project. They will be able to test the accuracy of their calculations in the virtual environment to observe how different variables such as displacement, time, velocity and elevation angles affect the principles of engineering.
If I remember correctly, Americas Army was never a lean mean beast. It was incredibly slow to load, and required decent hardware to run. Certainly won't be doing any of this on your schools machines that have integrated graphics cards.
Moore calls micro-payments a rip-off.
I call Madden '97 to '08 a rip-off.
No I didn't read the articles, I don't care what the head of EA Sports has to say.
Not to be mean, but I've never played an EA sports game that was anything but mediocre.
I'm not even against sports games in general, but my friends and I would much rather play NFL Blitz or Wayne Gretzky 3D hockey for the N64. These are games that are actually FUN, not just shiny.
Apple has created an embedded device and is choosing to tightly control the available applications for it. If you think this is a bad thing, don't develop for it and don't buy an iphone, it's that simple. Things like the gameboy and xbox live tightly control the available content, and I don't see nearly as much bitching about them as I do about the iphone. People jailbreak/develop home brew apps for the devices and don't expect to be embraced by the hardware creators. If you want to develop for an open platform develop for the PC or another device which actually wants and maintains good relationships with independent developers.
is how exactly do you get them to float? The article mentions using oxygen and nitrogen, because they are lighter than the atmosphere in venus. But how in the heck do you get enough of that to make a colony float to venus?
In any case I find all the colonization stories pretty speculative since it costs so much money just to get into orbit, let alone to other planets. Until/unless propulsion technology gets a lot cheaper, I simply don't think we have the resources to colonize outside of earth.
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getting denied health insurance for having bad genes
Altitude is my favorite game ever. It's a multiplayer airplane/dogfighting game with really satisfying combat.
But in these tough times, the scammers said, they are relying more on a crucial tool: voodoo. At times, Banjo said, he has traveled six hours to the forest, where a magician sells scam-boosters. A $300 powder supposedly helps scammers "speak with authority" when demanding payment. A powder, rubbed on the face, reportedly makes victims viewing the scammer through webcams powerless to say no.
Starcraft has incredible depth and lots of emergent gameplay. My brother bought the game nearly 10 years ago and has played it on and off to this day. He's been playing a lot on ICCUP(an unofficial server that the good players use for ranked play and to avoid hackers) since he has graduated an is jobless. He is undoubtedly better than me and wins 9 out of 10 times, which made it all the more satisfying when I 5pooled him(a rush) and left him in a hissy fit(he doesn't take losing well). I particularly like that there are so many different strategies in starcraft, you can take a very unconventional/high risk strategy, and if executed decently have a good chance of success.
Oh wow, my eyes glazed over the sentence the sentenced that had "serious text processing" in it. I am not very familiar with Forth so the next part seemed plausible. Finally my tired eyes spotted an anomaly; surely Java/Swing is on par if not more "well supported" than Perl/Tk. But the comment said +4 insightful my mind protested! Oh wait a second, whats this? It's bad analogy guy! I've seen his comments before I remember, amused at how I had caught the joke just barely before it passed over my head. (A look at the 6 other comments here shows that there was plenty of *whoosh* to go around though)
Even though it sucks that they got steamrolled I'm sure the startup doesn't mind so much because of the free publicity the case generated.
Why is the summary so devoid of technical detail? You realize we don't read the articles right?
The only fork that will work at this point is one that has laxer deletionist/notability standards. Notability could be determined by weather the article has a potential audience, not weather it meets some arbitrary standard of notability. Same with citation requirements, sections of an article that are contested would be marked as such, but not necessarily removed.
space travel is mathematically dead simple
Welcome to Slashdot, one of the few places where rocket science is considered simple.
Ms. Hathaway was employed with the consulting firm Evidence Based Research
I guess that's better than working for Lies Based Research?
I would think most modern nations employ hackers these days. I'm sure much of America's hacking talent make a tidy salary working for the NSA.
I came here to gripe about wine. While it is definitely a cool piece of software I think people way overstate its abilities. For instance, I've read many many times that wine works perfectly with starcraft. The wine website itself rates it "Gold" which according to them means "Applications that work flawlessly with some special configuration". And yet anyone who has tried to use starcraft on Linux would know that that the multiplayer(the reason people still play sc) is unusable due to acknowledged graphical bugs and lag(YMMV on this). Starcraft is not a stand alone example from my experience. I would say anything not on the list of 76 programs that "work flawlessly, no configuration", are likely to be unusable. Unfortunately software is not like a glass of milk. A program that only works 50% of the time is bad, while milk is delicious no matter how much of it you have.
Then how would I download firefox?
Thanks for reminding me why I browse at 3.
Yea, this game is pretty ancient. Lag is a huge problem for their multi-player online play, they do a lot to counter it(like path prediction and a white lag triangle to indicate where your opponent might actually be), but its still just barely playable when everyone is using broadband and there aren't any lag spikes or dropped packets. I imagine this game is a lot funner over a LAN. Also, even though I've always been a game play before graphics guy, the graphics need some TLC.
If I remember correctly, Americas Army was never a lean mean beast. It was incredibly slow to load, and required decent hardware to run. Certainly won't be doing any of this on your schools machines that have integrated graphics cards.
Moore calls micro-payments a rip-off. I call Madden '97 to '08 a rip-off. No I didn't read the articles, I don't care what the head of EA Sports has to say. Not to be mean, but I've never played an EA sports game that was anything but mediocre. I'm not even against sports games in general, but my friends and I would much rather play NFL Blitz or Wayne Gretzky 3D hockey for the N64. These are games that are actually FUN, not just shiny.
Apple has created an embedded device and is choosing to tightly control the available applications for it. If you think this is a bad thing, don't develop for it and don't buy an iphone, it's that simple. Things like the gameboy and xbox live tightly control the available content, and I don't see nearly as much bitching about them as I do about the iphone. People jailbreak/develop home brew apps for the devices and don't expect to be embraced by the hardware creators. If you want to develop for an open platform develop for the PC or another device which actually wants and maintains good relationships with independent developers.
So does this pass the 'significant technical content' test, IBM'ers?"
no /discussion
is how exactly do you get them to float? The article mentions using oxygen and nitrogen, because they are lighter than the atmosphere in venus. But how in the heck do you get enough of that to make a colony float to venus? In any case I find all the colonization stories pretty speculative since it costs so much money just to get into orbit, let alone to other planets. Until/unless propulsion technology gets a lot cheaper, I simply don't think we have the resources to colonize outside of earth.
IANAL but from what I've read, most "experts" are basically paid to say whatever the lawyers need them to say.
and watch Yahoo's stock plummet
I for one, welcome our weed killing friends... As long as we remain friends.
Grasslands and Cave, nuff said.
I know that the magazine hasn't even been shipped yet!