"I did no such thing. "Ad hominem" is when you are replying to someone else's argument. I am not replying to their argument. I am making my own argument, which is that they are stupid."
Aerial photos are actually pretty useful, you get a much better idea of the route using the map/photo overlay on www.multimap.com (check out e.g. London), particularly if you're walking or cycling. Seeing what colour things are and actual landmarks is better than just a street map.
That said, I'm not sure about 3D maps - they'd have to offer a good road's-eye view and be capable of tracking through a planned journey (in fast forward, slowing down for the junctions), as well as letting you move upwards to get an aerial view. Sounds pretty stressful on a graphics card too.
And as for "no practical purpose to the overwhelming majority of the population" - well does half the population even have net access? No? Let's shut it down then! If this doesn't turn out to be profitable, it'll die.
Very interesting, thank you. I'm not holding my breath for He-3 fusion, but I wasn't aware that Titanium was so abundant. I'll spend more time researching my next post...
Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, the Saturn V blueprints
have not been lost. They are kept at Marshall Space Flight Center on
microfilm.
The problem in re-creating the Saturn V is not finding the drawings, it
is finding vendors who can supply mid-1960's vintage hardware (like
guidance system components), and the fact that the launch pads and VAB
have been converted to Space Shuttle use, so you have no place to launch
from.
Also, I think the moon is fairly low in metals, so mining it to build spacecraft isn't a great plan unless you want to build them out of rock. Building a moonbase by remote control would be pretty awesome though.
"I am strongly in favour of using poison gas against uncivilised tribes." - Churchill
Churchill was a useful wartime leader, but wasn't someone who you should base your personal philosophy on. He was quite an interesting character though, and you might enjoy looking him on on google/wikipedia/etc...
Does the demo include bots? I prefer to learn how to play offline - especially since this game will probably choke my computer to the point where I can't hit anything moving anyway.
The original name was ALUMIUM, the entirely logical extension of the metal salt called alum. Aluminum and Aluminium are both versions with mangled spelling so they are easier to pronounce.
Maybe, 5 years ago. Now, we have ebay - Ico for $10. Only a few extremely rare games like Radiant Silvergun are more expensive than when they launched.
Plus, PS2 is cracked - get a mod chip and download the ISO if you genuinely can't find someone who'll take your money for a game. Only barely unethical:)
"And do you have some kind of magical map that shows you floor layouts of places you've never been before? No? Didn't think so. How do you find your way around? Exactly."
Latency is usually quoted as a there-and-back time, so the grandparent is right. That might be because he forgot the two cancelling factors of 2 though.
Anyway, a good scientist checks theory by experiment: ping www.nintendo.co.jp (from Europe) result: 254 ms
With 2 mice apple users would finally be able to left-click and right-click!
Seriously though 4D input is nothing special - it's in every FPS game, mouse for 2 of the rotational degrees and WASD or the arrow keys for 2 spacial directions. Plus you get jump/crouch (or up/down if swimming/flying) control from 2 more keys/mouse buttons, so that's 5D and it's been around since Quake. Not quite the same as dual-mouse of course but using a mouse for translation in an infinite space (as opposed to one bounded by the edges of the screen) is less comfortable than keys since you have to keep lifting the mouse and pulling back. I can imagine dual-mice having some uses though - you could create a pretty interesting shooter like that.
You're probably joking, but you got modded informative so:
From your link "according to a physicist"... There is a general consensus that black holes with singularities exist, but the universe doesn't give a damn about our consensual opinion - the Earth would be flat otherwise.
This is how science works, people come up with testable ideas which are proven right or wrong. No-one is arguing that super-dense, intrinsically dark objects don't exist, we have plenty of evidence that they do. Infinitely dense singularities, well, maybe not - if they exist as we predict they're inside an event horizon and therefore unobservable so actually directly verifying their existance is always going to be impossible... all we can do is come up with odd ideas like dark energy stars which might bounce matter out and see if we can observe that happening.
Yeah, those medieval cathedrals are all slick efficiency. And I hate those fairytale castle multi-storey car parks we have nowadays.
Wish I lived where you live - round here it's the old buildings that are the pretty ones and most of the new buildings ugly.... that's probably a selection effect though - the old, ugly buildings get torn down so you can build new, ugly buildings.
The US has a large number of military bases on UK soil - http://www.caab.org.uk/. Early warning systems, airfields, etc. A legacy of the cold war, but they've been used to lauch bomber raids on various places since it ended - presumably it's cheaper than parking an aircraft carrier in the North Sea. I'm not aware of any UK military bases on US soil, I'd be interested to know if there are any.
Last time I tried it online (years ago) I got the floor wiped with me, I suspect anyone still playing it would be scarily good. Better to talk some friends into a game.
"In my mind, just being a christian is endorsement of this guy"
It is an endorsement to state you are a Christian without immediately distancing yourself from the unpleasant kind of Christian, since that is the perception of many outsiders to the religion. It doesn't mean you're a bad person if you go around announcing your religious beliefs in an ambiguous way, but you certainly are doing a bad thing. People should be precise about religion as it's a subject with a lot of strong emotions attached.
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"I did no such thing. "Ad hominem" is when you are replying to someone else's argument. I am not replying to their argument. I am making my own argument, which is that they are stupid."
And "ad hominem" means...
Doesn't iTunes install quicktime? Quicktime is nag-/crippleware, or at least that's my experience of it on Windows.
Aerial photos are actually pretty useful, you get a much better idea of the route using the map/photo overlay on www.multimap.com (check out e.g. London), particularly if you're walking or cycling. Seeing what colour things are and actual landmarks is better than just a street map.
That said, I'm not sure about 3D maps - they'd have to offer a good road's-eye view and be capable of tracking through a planned journey (in fast forward, slowing down for the junctions), as well as letting you move upwards to get an aerial view. Sounds pretty stressful on a graphics card too.
And as for "no practical purpose to the overwhelming majority of the population" - well does half the population even have net access? No? Let's shut it down then!
If this doesn't turn out to be profitable, it'll die.
Very interesting, thank you. I'm not holding my breath for He-3 fusion, but I wasn't aware that Titanium was so abundant. I'll spend more time researching my next post...
Also, I think the moon is fairly low in metals, so mining it to build spacecraft isn't a great plan unless you want to build them out of rock. Building a moonbase by remote control would be pretty awesome though.
"I am strongly in favour of using poison gas against uncivilised tribes." - Churchill
Churchill was a useful wartime leader, but wasn't someone who you should base your personal philosophy on. He was quite an interesting character though, and you might enjoy looking him on on google/wikipedia/etc...
That's called a "grad student".
I've extracted the serial number from the version I downloaded, and it's SJOBS_000001. Whatever could it mean?
That doesn't involve finishing on Ewoks?
How about II, III, V, the second half of IV, LOTR III (minus the extra endings) and finish on Spaceballs?
Does the demo include bots?
I prefer to learn how to play offline - especially since this game will probably choke my computer to the point where I can't hit anything moving anyway.
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The original name was ALUMIUM, the entirely logical extension of the metal salt called alum. Aluminum and Aluminium are both versions with mangled spelling so they are easier to pronounce.
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Maybe, 5 years ago. Now, we have ebay - Ico for $10. Only a few extremely rare games like Radiant Silvergun are more expensive than when they launched.
Plus, PS2 is cracked - get a mod chip and download the ISO if you genuinely can't find someone who'll take your money for a game. Only barely unethical
"And do you have some kind of magical map that shows you floor layouts of places you've never been before? No? Didn't think so. How do you find your way around? Exactly."
Google Maps?
Latency is usually quoted as a there-and-back time, so the grandparent is right. That might be because he forgot the two cancelling factors of 2 though.
Anyway, a good scientist checks theory by experiment:
ping www.nintendo.co.jp (from Europe)
result: 254 ms
Yep, about right.
With 2 mice apple users would finally be able to left-click and right-click!
Seriously though 4D input is nothing special - it's in every FPS game, mouse for 2 of the rotational degrees and WASD or the arrow keys for 2 spacial directions. Plus you get jump/crouch (or up/down if swimming/flying) control from 2 more keys/mouse buttons, so that's 5D and it's been around since Quake. Not quite the same as dual-mouse of course but using a mouse for translation in an infinite space (as opposed to one bounded by the edges of the screen) is less comfortable than keys since you have to keep lifting the mouse and pulling back. I can imagine dual-mice having some uses though - you could create a pretty interesting shooter like that.
great comment!
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The Ghost trailers on the Blizzard site are windows executables... anyone going to post a torrent of the actual videos?
Trailers here.
You're probably joking, but you got modded informative so:
From your link "according to a physicist"... There is a general consensus that black holes with singularities exist, but the universe doesn't give a damn about our consensual opinion - the Earth would be flat otherwise.
This is how science works, people come up with testable ideas which are proven right or wrong. No-one is arguing that super-dense, intrinsically dark objects don't exist, we have plenty of evidence that they do. Infinitely dense singularities, well, maybe not - if they exist as we predict they're inside an event horizon and therefore unobservable so actually directly verifying their existance is always going to be impossible... all we can do is come up with odd ideas like dark energy stars which might bounce matter out and see if we can observe that happening.
Absolutely right. But they also get 230 fps for Doom 3, so they've probably just got those graphs the wrong way round.
Yeah, those medieval cathedrals are all slick efficiency. And I hate those fairytale castle multi-storey car parks we have nowadays.
Wish I lived where you live - round here it's the old buildings that are the pretty ones and most of the new buildings ugly.... that's probably a selection effect though - the old, ugly buildings get torn down so you can build new, ugly buildings.
The US has a large number of military bases on UK soil - http://www.caab.org.uk/. Early warning systems, airfields, etc. A legacy of the cold war, but they've been used to lauch bomber raids on various places since it ended - presumably it's cheaper than parking an aircraft carrier in the North Sea.
I'm not aware of any UK military bases on US soil, I'd be interested to know if there are any.
You can use MSN gaming zone.
Last time I tried it online (years ago) I got the floor wiped with me, I suspect anyone still playing it would be scarily good. Better to talk some friends into a game.
"In my mind, just being a christian is endorsement of this guy"
It is an endorsement to state you are a Christian without immediately distancing yourself from the unpleasant kind of Christian, since that is the perception of many outsiders to the religion.
It doesn't mean you're a bad person if you go around announcing your religious beliefs in an ambiguous way, but you certainly are doing a bad thing.
People should be precise about religion as it's a subject with a lot of strong emotions attached.
I can't believe you haven't spotted this yet:
*It could edit Jar Jar out of Star Wars*
Maybe version 2 will change walkie-talkies to guns...