It's more like stealing the crowbar that the burglar used to break into your house. Try as I might, I can't seem to feel upset over this. Their laziness is troubling, but the code stealing isn't.
Better this than suing six year olds and grandmothers.
Setting up a system where people can conveniently and legally watch movies on their computers is going to do a lot more for fighting piracy than their previous tactics.
It wouldn't be a threat, quite the opposite in fact. If it becomes mandatory, everyone will either need to refit their current cars, or buy a new one. I don't see how the oil companies would come into play either. The cars would still need gas, and if they haven't stopped regulations requiring greater fuel efficiency, they wouldn't stop this either.
Showing the world that a perpetual motion machine works is actually easier than it looks; it only takes two steps.
Step 1: Make enough noise for there to be some publicity about you and your invention, (which it seems that this guy has already done).
Step 2: Release, for free, to anyone who is interested, detailed instructions on how to make your device.
Lots and lots of free energy inventors seem to have no problem with step 1, but they always seem to avoid step 2. Sure, just telling everyone how to make it for free would make it much harder to patent or profit directly from the invention, but being world famous as the person who invented free energy will get universities and corporations deluging you with funding for your next invention and offers of employment. Plus there would be that good fuzzy feeling of helping humanity.
Newspaper comics are made for old ladies looking for some bland inoffensive humor, preferably involving children or pets, over their morning coffee. Often they look in strips that have been running since their own childhood, the only difference being that the original cartoonists have died long ago, and the strips are now being made a team of faceless corporate artists.
If there's anything humanity will always have a surplus of, it's the stupid and gullible. And the people stupid enough to buy stuff from spam are probably also stupid enough to not recognize their own stupidity or ever care about due diligence.
I second that. Having random words be links, each of which may or may not go to the article being talked about in the summary is a pain in the ass to decipher.
The problem is, even if it was done with postmodern self awareness, the last boss was still a rather bland and disappointing fight, especially compared to most everything earlier in the game. It's not enough for the designers to wink at the audience and let us know that they know they're following the genre's conventions, they still need to make that next step and put that self awareness to work in something that's surprising, insightful, or at least memorable.
The little details like seeing a toilet, and not only being able to use it, but being able to blow it apart, and then drink from the water shooting out of the broken pipe are what made Duke Nukem 3d memorable. Those extra bits of personality and interactivity helped make it stand out from the generic "walking through a drab and static series of corridors shooting monsters" style that other fps games of the time had.
Heck, most fps games since then haven't let you interact with and/or destroy as many objects in the environment as dn3d did. I'm always disappointed when despite the shiny new graphics in a new fps, the toilets are unflushable and invincible.
Fortunately, with physics being the current big thing, interactivity with the objects littering the levels is becoming more common.
The game runs smoothly for me. Maybe the servers you're playing on have bad tic rates?
Anyway, I played QWTF years ago, played a small amount of TFC, and started with TF2 the day it was released. I love it. I'm not missing what they got rid of, and they did a great job with balancing things out. Good riddance to bunny hopping, conc jumping, and grenade spam.
Red has the advantage on dustbowl and gravelpit because they only have to defend on those maps, and it's a lot easier to set up a bunch of sentries than it is to coordinate some ubers to take them down.
Mario 64's camera was pretty good for the time. A bad camera was a very common complaint about many games from that era, so Mario 64's was often the best by comparison.
And that Roman general was quite justified in pointing out those difficulties, given the many years of technological innovation and problems involved in inventing those examples. He's hardly a dullard for asking about the problems that someone in the future will have to overcome before your fantasies could come to life.
Oblivion is on the computer and 360 as well, so it's also just as good of a reason to buy a 360 or a decent computer. I'm expecting Metal Gear Solid 4 to be the PS3's last chance at success.
What made Team Fortress fun was the unique skills and abilities of each class, and the cooperation and countering that each class was in theory supposed to be useful at doing. If at the highest level of play it became a physics engine exploiting grenade spamming mess, with the vast majority of the classes and abilities ignored, then you may as well be playing team deathmatch or ctf.
Team Fortress 2 feels a lot more refined and balanced. I do agree that they could have added a bit more complexity, but after putting quite a few hours in, I found that I didn't really care about the stuff that they took out. Sure, I do miss being able to throw a grenade around a corner to take out a sentry gun, but I definitely don't miss the ridiculous amount of grenade spam that would happen on a full server. Sure, your old tricks may not work, but that doesn't mean that they took out the need for skill. A well coordinated team can easily run circles around a disorganized one, and fast reflexes and good aim are as useful as they are in any fps.
The newbie friendly face of TF2 is actually a very good thing. A multiplayer only game that allows new players the chance to learn what's going on while still contributing something to their team is going to have an active community of players for a lot longer than one where a newbie has to spend 20 minutes binding keys, only to be repeatedly insta-killed by the seasoned veterans.
Since the article says that they can run on petrol or diesel, I don't think the oil companies would have any problems with this at all. Plus, unless you can offer some numbers, I'm finding it quite hard to believe that powered flight will be more fuel efficient than the average car.
The two phrases each have their own distinct meaning. By confusing the two, one of them is being lost. I personally find a language that is constantly hemorrhaging useful expressions to be even worse than an overly proper one.
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It's more like stealing the crowbar that the burglar used to break into your house. Try as I might, I can't seem to feel upset over this. Their laziness is troubling, but the code stealing isn't.
It's called Steamcloud. They announced it: http://kotaku.com/5011756/valve-announce-steamcloud-sounds-great although I haven't heard anything about it since. Knowing Valve, it could be tomorrow or it could be years before it sees the light of day.
No unskippable cutscenes!
Better this than suing six year olds and grandmothers. Setting up a system where people can conveniently and legally watch movies on their computers is going to do a lot more for fighting piracy than their previous tactics.
It wouldn't be a threat, quite the opposite in fact. If it becomes mandatory, everyone will either need to refit their current cars, or buy a new one. I don't see how the oil companies would come into play either. The cars would still need gas, and if they haven't stopped regulations requiring greater fuel efficiency, they wouldn't stop this either.
She's not going to be young forever, but she IS going to be a believer forever.
Actually, the answer to that is yes. My cable was with Adelphia, and they got bought out by Time Warner.
Showing the world that a perpetual motion machine works is actually easier than it looks; it only takes two steps.
Step 1: Make enough noise for there to be some publicity about you and your invention, (which it seems that this guy has already done).
Step 2: Release, for free, to anyone who is interested, detailed instructions on how to make your device.
Lots and lots of free energy inventors seem to have no problem with step 1, but they always seem to avoid step 2. Sure, just telling everyone how to make it for free would make it much harder to patent or profit directly from the invention, but being world famous as the person who invented free energy will get universities and corporations deluging you with funding for your next invention and offers of employment. Plus there would be that good fuzzy feeling of helping humanity.
Newspaper comics are made for old ladies looking for some bland inoffensive humor, preferably involving children or pets, over their morning coffee. Often they look in strips that have been running since their own childhood, the only difference being that the original cartoonists have died long ago, and the strips are now being made a team of faceless corporate artists.
If there's anything humanity will always have a surplus of, it's the stupid and gullible. And the people stupid enough to buy stuff from spam are probably also stupid enough to not recognize their own stupidity or ever care about due diligence.
I second that. Having random words be links, each of which may or may not go to the article being talked about in the summary is a pain in the ass to decipher.
The problem is, even if it was done with postmodern self awareness, the last boss was still a rather bland and disappointing fight, especially compared to most everything earlier in the game. It's not enough for the designers to wink at the audience and let us know that they know they're following the genre's conventions, they still need to make that next step and put that self awareness to work in something that's surprising, insightful, or at least memorable.
The little details like seeing a toilet, and not only being able to use it, but being able to blow it apart, and then drink from the water shooting out of the broken pipe are what made Duke Nukem 3d memorable. Those extra bits of personality and interactivity helped make it stand out from the generic "walking through a drab and static series of corridors shooting monsters" style that other fps games of the time had.
Heck, most fps games since then haven't let you interact with and/or destroy as many objects in the environment as dn3d did. I'm always disappointed when despite the shiny new graphics in a new fps, the toilets are unflushable and invincible.
Fortunately, with physics being the current big thing, interactivity with the objects littering the levels is becoming more common.
Look at the stats again. On dustbowl and gravelpit, red, the defenders, wins most of the time.
The game runs smoothly for me. Maybe the servers you're playing on have bad tic rates?
Anyway, I played QWTF years ago, played a small amount of TFC, and started with TF2 the day it was released. I love it. I'm not missing what they got rid of, and they did a great job with balancing things out. Good riddance to bunny hopping, conc jumping, and grenade spam.
Red has the advantage on dustbowl and gravelpit because they only have to defend on those maps, and it's a lot easier to set up a bunch of sentries than it is to coordinate some ubers to take them down.
Mario 64's camera was pretty good for the time. A bad camera was a very common complaint about many games from that era, so Mario 64's was often the best by comparison.
And that Roman general was quite justified in pointing out those difficulties, given the many years of technological innovation and problems involved in inventing those examples. He's hardly a dullard for asking about the problems that someone in the future will have to overcome before your fantasies could come to life.
Oblivion is on the computer and 360 as well, so it's also just as good of a reason to buy a 360 or a decent computer. I'm expecting Metal Gear Solid 4 to be the PS3's last chance at success.
The creationists will ignore it and continue to gleefully cite it, since their target audience is too ignorant to be aware of news like this.
What made Team Fortress fun was the unique skills and abilities of each class, and the cooperation and countering that each class was in theory supposed to be useful at doing. If at the highest level of play it became a physics engine exploiting grenade spamming mess, with the vast majority of the classes and abilities ignored, then you may as well be playing team deathmatch or ctf. Team Fortress 2 feels a lot more refined and balanced. I do agree that they could have added a bit more complexity, but after putting quite a few hours in, I found that I didn't really care about the stuff that they took out. Sure, I do miss being able to throw a grenade around a corner to take out a sentry gun, but I definitely don't miss the ridiculous amount of grenade spam that would happen on a full server. Sure, your old tricks may not work, but that doesn't mean that they took out the need for skill. A well coordinated team can easily run circles around a disorganized one, and fast reflexes and good aim are as useful as they are in any fps. The newbie friendly face of TF2 is actually a very good thing. A multiplayer only game that allows new players the chance to learn what's going on while still contributing something to their team is going to have an active community of players for a lot longer than one where a newbie has to spend 20 minutes binding keys, only to be repeatedly insta-killed by the seasoned veterans.
So what happens if the clause that says that if any part is unenforceable, the others still stand is itself found unenforcible?
Since the article says that they can run on petrol or diesel, I don't think the oil companies would have any problems with this at all. Plus, unless you can offer some numbers, I'm finding it quite hard to believe that powered flight will be more fuel efficient than the average car.
The two phrases each have their own distinct meaning. By confusing the two, one of them is being lost. I personally find a language that is constantly hemorrhaging useful expressions to be even worse than an overly proper one.
If there's not already an extension that can get around this, then I'm sure that one is being written right now.