Launching that amount of fuel to the ISS is prohibitively expensive.
Partially due to the orbit that ISS is curently in. Catch-22s are great, arn't they? (Though, really, the major problem is the station is so large it takes a huge amount of fuel to move it anyway, intertia being what it is, and the high speeds involved in orbital velocities would mean you would have to move it a bunch.)
I guess the next big PSP release is when someone replaces the firmware with something that includes the goodies of 2.0 like the browser but allows you to easily run homebrew al la 1.5.
Anything that opens the potential for a widespread pirate game (or movie) market for the PSP means lost revenue,
Well, they allready gave you the tools for pegleg movies. No need for homebrew, just a big memory stick and some desktop CPU time to re-encode the videos you aquired from whatever your legal or not so legal avenue of choice. I've even seen a few PSP-specific videos on one torrent site or another (while I was looking for legitimate public domain content, of course).
Someone brought up the Pioneer anomaly over in the Voyager thread earlier today. Intesting stuff, proves Yogi knows what he's talking about.
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Well, you can win by accululating (if memory serves) 10,000 Culture points in one city or 100,000 Culture in the empire. No guns required, just libraries early and often. However, this strategy really does require you to get some wonders, both for thier intrinsic +Culture, if any, and for thier tourist attaction culture in late game. Sounds like you didn't make that. Space ship victory also dosn't (technically) require military might, but it helps when Germany has all eight of the nine aluminum squares and they arn't particulary inclined to share, or when everyone else relizes your about to win. UN victory can also be won non-millitarily, but the one who builds the UN gets to decide when and if the election is held.
Alot of intersting features have been added since Civ 1. Culture, territory borders, religion, custom built units (Well, OK, that was AC), and Elvis, the culture advisor. What do you think the most important gameplay aspects that have been added since the original Civ? What concepts would like to be able to work into the hypothetical Civ V?
Yeah, not sure how Voyager came ahead of it. Not see what Voyager is doing on the list at all if DS9 is left out, other then the one comment about it in the B5 writeup.
I do the same thing. Knife in the left hand (all it has to do is go back and forth) and fork in the right (which has to stab, scoop, and somehow make it too my mouth without droping things). I should also note that despite being American, I don't do that absurd silverware shuffle every time I cut a piece of meat and instead emulate the Europeans and keep my silverware in the same hand the whole time.
Its anoying, though, that extentions that need no changes will refuse to work. If an extention gets orphoned, it will not work with the next version even if there is no need for code changes. I wish there was some way, on an extention-by-extention basis, to force it to load even if the versions don't match up. Still warn users that things don't look like they would work, but let them make the final call.
Funny? Parent should be insightfull. Seems like every other day we see XXX plans to buy out Skype stories.
Though (I don't think) we've heard any buzz from Redmond yet, I wouldn't be suprised if they pull out thier checkbook. Proprietary protocol? Check. High uptake? Check. Potential for ongoing, rather then one-off, sales? Check. Crossplatform compatability? Check. (Not that they want it, but rather they can't stand other's having it.) Sorta similar to services they allready offer, but with a much better implmentation? Check.
The dock cable is just that, a cable. Its basically one fancy plug with pins for Firewire, USB, power (seperate from the USB and FW supplies, for the wall adapter), line in, line out, and, belive it or not, serial. However, the controlers for these interfaces live on the iPod, so if it dosn't have a FW chip, the FW pins in the cable connect to nothing.
Can you imagine what Gimp would be like written on top of the EFLs?
I'd imagine Harmione Granger would be none too pleased about it. She's unhappy about elf exploitation as it is, and I don't think she'd be thrilled with us building applications on thier backs.
Don't forget, X dosn't require an app's UI to be displayed on the machine it's running on. Theres a network layer in this mess too, even if it's just loopback.
Microsoft booth was nothing more than a neon XBOX sign and a projector connected to an xbox, no 360, nothing.
Weird. Didn't PAX04 have the first playable Halo 2 available outside press events like E3? Suppised they would go from that to nothing, though I suppose Bungie is just a division of Microsoft, not Mircosoft proper.
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Launching that amount of fuel to the ISS is prohibitively expensive.
Partially due to the orbit that ISS is curently in. Catch-22s are great, arn't they? (Though, really, the major problem is the station is so large it takes a huge amount of fuel to move it anyway, intertia being what it is, and the high speeds involved in orbital velocities would mean you would have to move it a bunch.)
I guess the next big PSP release is when someone replaces the firmware with something that includes the goodies of 2.0 like the browser but allows you to easily run homebrew al la 1.5.
Anything that opens the potential for a widespread pirate game (or movie) market for the PSP means lost revenue,
Well, they allready gave you the tools for pegleg movies. No need for homebrew, just a big memory stick and some desktop CPU time to re-encode the videos you aquired from whatever your legal or not so legal avenue of choice. I've even seen a few PSP-specific videos on one torrent site or another (while I was looking for legitimate public domain content, of course).
So anyone have some specific bill/ammendment numbers yet I can reference when I start pleading the case to the local senators?
Someone brought up the Pioneer anomaly over in the Voyager thread earlier today. Intesting stuff, proves Yogi knows what he's talking about.
Well, you can win by accululating (if memory serves) 10,000 Culture points in one city or 100,000 Culture in the empire. No guns required, just libraries early and often. However, this strategy really does require you to get some wonders, both for thier intrinsic +Culture, if any, and for thier tourist attaction culture in late game. Sounds like you didn't make that. Space ship victory also dosn't (technically) require military might, but it helps when Germany has all eight of the nine aluminum squares and they arn't particulary inclined to share, or when everyone else relizes your about to win. UN victory can also be won non-millitarily, but the one who builds the UN gets to decide when and if the election is held.
Alot of intersting features have been added since Civ 1. Culture, territory borders, religion, custom built units (Well, OK, that was AC), and Elvis, the culture advisor. What do you think the most important gameplay aspects that have been added since the original Civ? What concepts would like to be able to work into the hypothetical Civ V?
And me without any mod points.
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Beats the ??? 2005 date I saw for 2.0 final last time I checked.
Yeah, not sure how Voyager came ahead of it. Not see what Voyager is doing on the list at all if DS9 is left out, other then the one comment about it in the B5 writeup.
Dating allows Sims to improve their relationship by attempting a 'dream date' at romantic locations like parks, restaurants, and bowling alleys.
Its not all that often you get to see a bowling alley described as "romantic".
I do the same thing. Knife in the left hand (all it has to do is go back and forth) and fork in the right (which has to stab, scoop, and somehow make it too my mouth without droping things). I should also note that despite being American, I don't do that absurd silverware shuffle every time I cut a piece of meat and instead emulate the Europeans and keep my silverware in the same hand the whole time.
I'm not sure if that should be moded funny or insightful.
Wait, I thought Tom Hanks WAS an astronaut!
I thought Bill was just happy to see me.
Its anoying, though, that extentions that need no changes will refuse to work. If an extention gets orphoned, it will not work with the next version even if there is no need for code changes. I wish there was some way, on an extention-by-extention basis, to force it to load even if the versions don't match up. Still warn users that things don't look like they would work, but let them make the final call.
Yes, but isn't the role of an editor to edit? Taco gave it the Commander's Stamp of Aproval (TM) in that form.
Funny? Parent should be insightfull. Seems like every other day we see XXX plans to buy out Skype stories. Though (I don't think) we've heard any buzz from Redmond yet, I wouldn't be suprised if they pull out thier checkbook. Proprietary protocol? Check. High uptake? Check. Potential for ongoing, rather then one-off, sales? Check. Crossplatform compatability? Check. (Not that they want it, but rather they can't stand other's having it.) Sorta similar to services they allready offer, but with a much better implmentation? Check.
The dock cable is just that, a cable. Its basically one fancy plug with pins for Firewire, USB, power (seperate from the USB and FW supplies, for the wall adapter), line in, line out, and, belive it or not, serial. However, the controlers for these interfaces live on the iPod, so if it dosn't have a FW chip, the FW pins in the cable connect to nothing.
Well, yes, there's also that whole "kill all the Google-using muggles" thing. Or was that you know who else?
I belive its called meta moderation. Mods who get "unfair"s on thier recent mod point expenditures are less likely to get mod points next time.
Can you imagine what Gimp would be like written on top of the EFLs?
I'd imagine Harmione Granger would be none too pleased about it. She's unhappy about elf exploitation as it is, and I don't think she'd be thrilled with us building applications on thier backs.
Don't forget, X dosn't require an app's UI to be displayed on the machine it's running on. Theres a network layer in this mess too, even if it's just loopback.
App -> gtk+ -> Cairo-> XRender -> TCP\IP Stack -> Network (usualy just loopback) -> TCP\IP Stack -> Xgl -> GLX(X) -> GL -> hw
Its amazing that something this complicated works at all, let alone at a speed we find usable.
(/me ducks in case he wedged the network stack in the wrong spot in the chain. Wasn't 100% sure.)
Microsoft booth was nothing more than a neon XBOX sign and a projector connected to an xbox, no 360, nothing.
Weird. Didn't PAX04 have the first playable Halo 2 available outside press events like E3? Suppised they would go from that to nothing, though I suppose Bungie is just a division of Microsoft, not Mircosoft proper.
It's just a mesure to ensure no more then one copy of a document exists at any one time.