Don't worry about Andromeda. It's not the closest galaxy to us. In fact the article had it wrong in saying that the pictured collision is the nearest to earth. It's not. The Milky Way is in the middle of a collision with another galaxy which is closer to us than the center of the Milky Way. It's called the Canis Major Dwarf.
Which I wonder why, when the Library level itself could have been reduced to no more than maybe 8K. 7K for the basic layout, and 1K for all the locations of all the repeated places that first 7K goes to.
I hate to reply to myself but apparently Vegas wasn't a bad choice since it had the largest percentage growth of those top 50 cities. A whole 85% growth. That's huge. The next largest is Austin with 41%, Mesa with 37%, Charlotte with 36% and then Phoenix with 34% growth between 1990 and 2000. So of those mentioned previously Miami should have been the one that was strangest since its ranked 45th and only had 1.1% growth in ten years.
You've named a couple of odd cities. Vegas and Miami aren't exactly what I would consider large. Granted I grew up in a big city and liked it.
You mentioned: (numbers according in 2005)
New York( 1st, 8,143,197 )
Los Angeles( 2nd, 3,844,829 )
San Francisco( 14th, 739,426 )
Boston( 24th, 559,034 )
Las Vegas( 29th, 545,147 )
Miami( 45th, 386,417 )
But you did not mention:
Chicago( 3rd )
Houston( 4th )
Philadelphia( 5th )
Phoenix( 6th )
San Antonio( 7th )
San Diego( 8th )
Dallas( 9th )
all of which have over one million people. In fact of the top 50 cities in the US you'll find relatively few in the North. California has 8, Texas has 7, Arizona has 3, Colorado has 2, New Mexico has 1, Washington has 1, Oregon has 1, Hawaii has 1, Nevada has 1 and that equals 25 of the largest 50 cities. There's also quite a few in the south and midwest.
Wow, I started off only thinking it was odd that you mentioned Vegas, and now I'm talking about weird stuff. I'll just give you the link and you can play with it.
I'm not too sure all the blame rests on investors and publishers not wanting to take risks. The reality is that it's easier for a lot of people to take what is already created and make it "better" than it is to create something wholly new. By "wholly new" I don't mean to create a new genre out of thin air, and by "better" I don't mean actually better. As an example, look to music when bands do covers or remixes.
As a not so well known example, I'll sing along to Boulevard of Broken Dreams and give it parts and think that it's better (of course, I think I would still prefer Green Day's original version than my version). There are a lot of people who can do that, but there is only one Green Day. In fact, most of us, can look at just about anything and say things like, "That would be better if..." or "What if they changed..." or "They should add..." or any of the like. But few of us would be hard pressed to create something entirely new.
Many of us can think of tweeks and changes to try to make Capture the Flag more fun, but few of us could create Capture the Flag from scratch. There are a lot of mutators for Unreal Tournament but few good new game types. But this isn't new to out generation. There's only a few Shigeru Miyamotos in this world.
your filter just has to look for "is a leader in", "empowers customers" and "breakthrough"
For fun one day go to the jobs section of gamasutra.com and look at the description of the game companies. It's amazing how many "award winning", "leading developer/publisher", "highly creative", "most innovative", and "ground breaking" companies there are. You would think that not a single crappy game has ever been made.
If I say to my friend that the principal is a lesbian it's between the two of us and we know what the context is (that is, we know I'm upset at her and am calling her names for no other good reason). That's not the same as me pretending to be my principal on myspace and acting like a lesbian. Two major things are very different: scope and representation. In the first scenario the scope is a friend, and I am representing myself. In the second the scope is potentially the whole world (including employers, family, friends, etc.) and the I am pretending to represent someone who I am not.
Which only goes to show that the ??AA actually do know that piracy does increase viewership. If all they were concerned with was copyrights then they would have sued youtube into oblivion and ended a lot of the copyright infringement. But if they sue now only because a company with deep pockets can pay up then they get to have their cake and eat it too. That is, they get the increased viewership and they get the money from suing.
Look at the TVs in shops - they look awful, but it's the same technology, just setup poorly.
Oh man you hit the nail on the head. Whenever I go to an electronics store, it does not matter what I am there for, first thing I do is go to the TV department. If I see one widescreen TV playing a movie with the wrong aspect ratio I leave. If a store can't be competent enough to at least make their stuff look appealing then how can I trust they will be competent enough in any thing else?
Amen to that. I really liked Trackmania for example. I loved it and thought it was the best racing game I had ever played. All the while my DVD-ROM drive kept getting slower and slower but I thought nothing of it because it had been a while since I reinstalled Windows and just attributed it to that. Then I read that about StarForce and that Nadeo used it in Trackmania. I will never buy a Nadeo game again because of it. This story is spot on. At the rate its going StarForce is going to lose more sales than it will save.
I'll be honest in that I've only used Red Hat, Fedora Core, Novell Linux Desktop and SLES 9, so I've never tried Ubuntu. I've noticed each distro getting better, but from what I could tell, the user friendliness of a distro came from either Gnome or KDE, not from the distro itself. So I am left wondering, how is Ubuntu with Gnome 2.14 any easier than Fedora Core with Gnome 2.14?
$4K+?!!?!!?You have seriously got to stop shopping at Alienware. I'll let you in on a little secret: You don't need anything over $1000 to have a gaming computer. In fact I just bought one for under $600 and I have yet to see it start to go slow. I've thrown Doom 3 and Half-Life 2 (including HDR on in Lost Coast) on their highest settings. Not even so much as a slow down. So for less than the price of a PS3 I get a gaming machine with HD and a computer (all jokes about the PS3 being a computer aside). I very much expect this one to go at least 4 years. Understand though that the only upgrade you get on your consoles comes every 4-5 years. So even though lots have advanced in graphics and physics and simulation and AI and crunching power, you get only what little the developers have been able to suck out of a 4 year old system. On a PC you get the exact same, or, if you are so inclined, you can upgrade and get the new bells and whistles at any time you want. So with a PC, you get more with the possibility of more sooner.
I've played all of the Dark Forces and Jedi Knight Series, including the Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II expansion Mysteries of the Sith. I played them all in order even. I enjoyed them all (even the frustration of fighting Kyle at the end of MotS). But Jedi Outcast was the game that made me switch career paths from wanting to be a doctor to wanting to make video games, so I call that my roots. But now that you mention it, I think I'll have to dig up an old copy and play the games again.
1. UT 2004 - nothing like a fast paced shoot to kill with no goals. I especially like to play Capture the Flag or Bombing Run in the CarPark map with as many bots as possible. Nothing but fragging there.
2. Minesweeper - If I have just a few minutes, this is my standby.
3. Warcraft III - I can do single player, against bots, or online and all of them are just fun. Plus, my wife loves this game. The DotA allstars mod is really fun as well.
4. Half-Life 2 - If I just want a good shooter with a good story this is where I go.
5. Jedi Outcast - This game is my favorite. This game alone caused me to switch from Bio-Chem to Computer Science in College. Sometimes, it's good to get back to your roots.
Another fun game I love is the Trackmania series. I still think the original is better than Sunrise or Nations. Unfortunately, it has Star Force copy protection and after a year my DVD drive went nearly useless. I loved playing it, but I'm not too sure I ever will again. Do you hear that Nadeo? It was your DRM that made me not play the game. You had a big fan, and when I found out what was happening, you lost me.
What do you use a browser for anyway? The only extension I ever install is Adblock and I consier Firefox a very good everyday browser even without that. Thats' probably because I use it everyday. I can go to a website, I can view that website, I can click links. Honestly, what else is there?
I think you mean why can't Sony get along with Immersion? Apparently rumble and motion can get a long fine. Doesn't the Wii have both? Even if it doesn't, Immersion seems to have solved that problem.
I don't know you personally so I can't say I hate you, but if I ever figure out who you set these policies up with, I would never work for them. I can understand blocking things like porn sites if for no other reason than to save yourself from sexual harrasment suits and maybe the gambling sites to avoid embezzlement temptations. But why in the world would you block non-official email, financial sites and sports sites?
It's not wrong to expect your employees to work. So you set up a policy that says they have certain duties to perform and if they don't perform those duties then they are liable to be fired for failure to do their job. Then if they do their job, what are you worried that they happened to spend a few minutes seeing how their buddy is, seeing how their stocks are, and seeing how their team did? They did their duty. And if they don't do their duty, it doesn't matter one iota if they didn't because they wasted time one the web, at the water cooler, or because they are incompetent.
I hate it when people have the "One bad apple ruins it for the whole class" mentality. Punish/discipline the people who do wrong, reward those who go above and beyond, and let everyone else do their thing.
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Don't worry about Andromeda. It's not the closest galaxy to us. In fact the article had it wrong in saying that the pictured collision is the nearest to earth. It's not. The Milky Way is in the middle of a collision with another galaxy which is closer to us than the center of the Milky Way. It's called the Canis Major Dwarf.
MOD THIS UP! +1 Hilariously True
Halo for the Xbox...almost fills a disc
Which I wonder why, when the Library level itself could have been reduced to no more than maybe 8K. 7K for the basic layout, and 1K for all the locations of all the repeated places that first 7K goes to.
I hate to reply to myself but apparently Vegas wasn't a bad choice since it had the largest percentage growth of those top 50 cities. A whole 85% growth. That's huge. The next largest is Austin with 41%, Mesa with 37%, Charlotte with 36% and then Phoenix with 34% growth between 1990 and 2000. So of those mentioned previously Miami should have been the one that was strangest since its ranked 45th and only had 1.1% growth in ten years.
You've named a couple of odd cities. Vegas and Miami aren't exactly what I would consider large. Granted I grew up in a big city and liked it.
You mentioned: (numbers according in 2005)
New York( 1st, 8,143,197 )
Los Angeles( 2nd, 3,844,829 )
San Francisco( 14th, 739,426 )
Boston( 24th, 559,034 )
Las Vegas( 29th, 545,147 )
Miami( 45th, 386,417 )
But you did not mention:
Chicago( 3rd )
Houston( 4th )
Philadelphia( 5th )
Phoenix( 6th )
San Antonio( 7th )
San Diego( 8th )
Dallas( 9th )
all of which have over one million people. In fact of the top 50 cities in the US you'll find relatively few in the North. California has 8, Texas has 7, Arizona has 3, Colorado has 2, New Mexico has 1, Washington has 1, Oregon has 1, Hawaii has 1, Nevada has 1 and that equals 25 of the largest 50 cities. There's also quite a few in the south and midwest.
Wow, I started off only thinking it was odd that you mentioned Vegas, and now I'm talking about weird stuff. I'll just give you the link and you can play with it.
I'm not too sure all the blame rests on investors and publishers not wanting to take risks. The reality is that it's easier for a lot of people to take what is already created and make it "better" than it is to create something wholly new. By "wholly new" I don't mean to create a new genre out of thin air, and by "better" I don't mean actually better. As an example, look to music when bands do covers or remixes.
As a not so well known example, I'll sing along to Boulevard of Broken Dreams and give it parts and think that it's better (of course, I think I would still prefer Green Day's original version than my version). There are a lot of people who can do that, but there is only one Green Day. In fact, most of us, can look at just about anything and say things like, "That would be better if..." or "What if they changed..." or "They should add..." or any of the like. But few of us would be hard pressed to create something entirely new.
Many of us can think of tweeks and changes to try to make Capture the Flag more fun, but few of us could create Capture the Flag from scratch. There are a lot of mutators for Unreal Tournament but few good new game types. But this isn't new to out generation. There's only a few Shigeru Miyamotos in this world.
Come off it. All games are murder simulators.
Though I am a little surprised how long it's taking for me to reach "FLAK MONKEY!" glory. When is that announcer guy going to call it out?
your filter just has to look for "is a leader in", "empowers customers" and "breakthrough"
For fun one day go to the jobs section of gamasutra.com and look at the description of the game companies. It's amazing how many "award winning", "leading developer/publisher", "highly creative", "most innovative", and "ground breaking" companies there are. You would think that not a single crappy game has ever been made.
Now that's how I like to start my mornings -- with a good laugh.
Kudos to you, good sir.
Quick everyone, boycott Vista and buy an Xbox instead!! That'll teach Microsoft not to mess around with us!
If I say to my friend that the principal is a lesbian it's between the two of us and we know what the context is (that is, we know I'm upset at her and am calling her names for no other good reason). That's not the same as me pretending to be my principal on myspace and acting like a lesbian. Two major things are very different: scope and representation. In the first scenario the scope is a friend, and I am representing myself. In the second the scope is potentially the whole world (including employers, family, friends, etc.) and the I am pretending to represent someone who I am not.
Hope that helps you understand.
In XP, Sony was able to install a rootkit without the user being any the wiser.
Now, for only the paltry sum of $500, Sony can have that rootkit certified.
Which only goes to show that the ??AA actually do know that piracy does increase viewership. If all they were concerned with was copyrights then they would have sued youtube into oblivion and ended a lot of the copyright infringement. But if they sue now only because a company with deep pockets can pay up then they get to have their cake and eat it too. That is, they get the increased viewership and they get the money from suing.
Look at the TVs in shops - they look awful, but it's the same technology, just setup poorly.
Oh man you hit the nail on the head. Whenever I go to an electronics store, it does not matter what I am there for, first thing I do is go to the TV department. If I see one widescreen TV playing a movie with the wrong aspect ratio I leave. If a store can't be competent enough to at least make their stuff look appealing then how can I trust they will be competent enough in any thing else?
Amen to that. I really liked Trackmania for example. I loved it and thought it was the best racing game I had ever played. All the while my DVD-ROM drive kept getting slower and slower but I thought nothing of it because it had been a while since I reinstalled Windows and just attributed it to that. Then I read that about StarForce and that Nadeo used it in Trackmania. I will never buy a Nadeo game again because of it. This story is spot on. At the rate its going StarForce is going to lose more sales than it will save.
I'll be honest in that I've only used Red Hat, Fedora Core, Novell Linux Desktop and SLES 9, so I've never tried Ubuntu. I've noticed each distro getting better, but from what I could tell, the user friendliness of a distro came from either Gnome or KDE, not from the distro itself. So I am left wondering, how is Ubuntu with Gnome 2.14 any easier than Fedora Core with Gnome 2.14?
$4K+?!!?!!?You have seriously got to stop shopping at Alienware. I'll let you in on a little secret: You don't need anything over $1000 to have a gaming computer. In fact I just bought one for under $600 and I have yet to see it start to go slow. I've thrown Doom 3 and Half-Life 2 (including HDR on in Lost Coast) on their highest settings. Not even so much as a slow down. So for less than the price of a PS3 I get a gaming machine with HD and a computer (all jokes about the PS3 being a computer aside). I very much expect this one to go at least 4 years. Understand though that the only upgrade you get on your consoles comes every 4-5 years. So even though lots have advanced in graphics and physics and simulation and AI and crunching power, you get only what little the developers have been able to suck out of a 4 year old system. On a PC you get the exact same, or, if you are so inclined, you can upgrade and get the new bells and whistles at any time you want. So with a PC, you get more with the possibility of more sooner.
That's a silly question. Of course we need HD. But that's like asking if we need computers. Why ask that? We already have it.
Oh, the article meant for console gamers. I'm sorry. Yes, they should be allowed to see what real pretty graphics look like I suppose.
I've played all of the Dark Forces and Jedi Knight Series, including the Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II expansion Mysteries of the Sith. I played them all in order even. I enjoyed them all (even the frustration of fighting Kyle at the end of MotS). But Jedi Outcast was the game that made me switch career paths from wanting to be a doctor to wanting to make video games, so I call that my roots. But now that you mention it, I think I'll have to dig up an old copy and play the games again.
My top 5 in no particular order are
1. UT 2004 - nothing like a fast paced shoot to kill with no goals. I especially like to play Capture the Flag or Bombing Run in the CarPark map with as many bots as possible. Nothing but fragging there.
2. Minesweeper - If I have just a few minutes, this is my standby.
3. Warcraft III - I can do single player, against bots, or online and all of them are just fun. Plus, my wife loves this game. The DotA allstars mod is really fun as well.
4. Half-Life 2 - If I just want a good shooter with a good story this is where I go.
5. Jedi Outcast - This game is my favorite. This game alone caused me to switch from Bio-Chem to Computer Science in College. Sometimes, it's good to get back to your roots.
Another fun game I love is the Trackmania series. I still think the original is better than Sunrise or Nations. Unfortunately, it has Star Force copy protection and after a year my DVD drive went nearly useless. I loved playing it, but I'm not too sure I ever will again. Do you hear that Nadeo? It was your DRM that made me not play the game. You had a big fan, and when I found out what was happening, you lost me.
What do you use a browser for anyway? The only extension I ever install is Adblock and I consier Firefox a very good everyday browser even without that. Thats' probably because I use it everyday. I can go to a website, I can view that website, I can click links. Honestly, what else is there?
I can't decide which is worse: That you were geeky enough to think of the joke, or that you weren't geeky enough to remember the quote.
I think you mean why can't Sony get along with Immersion? Apparently rumble and motion can get a long fine. Doesn't the Wii have both? Even if it doesn't, Immersion seems to have solved that problem.
I don't know you personally so I can't say I hate you, but if I ever figure out who you set these policies up with, I would never work for them. I can understand blocking things like porn sites if for no other reason than to save yourself from sexual harrasment suits and maybe the gambling sites to avoid embezzlement temptations. But why in the world would you block non-official email, financial sites and sports sites?
It's not wrong to expect your employees to work. So you set up a policy that says they have certain duties to perform and if they don't perform those duties then they are liable to be fired for failure to do their job. Then if they do their job, what are you worried that they happened to spend a few minutes seeing how their buddy is, seeing how their stocks are, and seeing how their team did? They did their duty. And if they don't do their duty, it doesn't matter one iota if they didn't because they wasted time one the web, at the water cooler, or because they are incompetent.
I hate it when people have the "One bad apple ruins it for the whole class" mentality. Punish/discipline the people who do wrong, reward those who go above and beyond, and let everyone else do their thing.
I'm one of those 50.