The gameplay is very similar Planetside. 3 Armor types, Light, Medium, Heavy. With scaled guns and abilities ( ie Light can Cloak, only Light and Med can hack ). Hack a point and spawn at/near it once hacked. Very much like planetside but smaller scale. and no lag/zerg.
But its a pretty game, cool graphics. But plays much like any other Team Deathmatch game.
The PSP is basically a portable PS2 (to all intents and purposes) and I think that is what gives the DS an advantage. As it has the completely different playing style. While your on the move do you want to play games in the same style you could at home, or something different? That is why I could by a DS over a PSP no-matter what Sony tries to market.
One system I have heard is 2 satelites with a cable between them, pulsing an electric current through the cable to induce a magnetic field. Can't remember if it is to either collect debris of deflect it down into the atmosphere. Quite effective its a couple of miles across.
Well me and my mates used to have Friday Night games, all go round my mates place, (his rents brought him a house, they lived up country). Played games, drinked beer, passed out.
Partly because it was good fun, partly coz half of us didnt have fake IDs.
That reminds me a bit (off topic i know) of opening really old office PC's. Installed Just after windows 95 or NT3.51/4 nice old P1 and P2 machines. Open the up and after almost 10 years of use the amount of dust inside of them is just ridiculous yet they still run happily.
But then they had much less heat to lose compared to a modern PC. Also they were pretty quiet. Some of those P1/P2 Machines only had a fan in the PSU. Passive Heatsinks.
When the original GTA came out, back in Britain it almost got banned (from what i remembered) and the threat of that made it sell like shit off a shovel.
Rockstar are riding the new wave. Rockstar North havnt overly reacted as
A) They want to make it look like the game could be banned, more sales now, at the Premium Price.
B) they are Scottish and don't give a shit about what some american's think about their game.
If it was designed to go directly through the PCI or PCI-E bus, instead of having to be plugged into a PCI slot and then having it take up a whole SATA slot. It might be worth it.
That way you would get better I/O throughput. But then its techinically more challenging.
Just out of curiousity how much power do ram modules need to stay in state? Could you make a card that sits between the ram and the motherboard to effectively hibernate ur PC? So If you had a powercut you don't lose wat you are working on. A poor mans UPS and a lot less bulky.
Well I don't hide the fact that I have poor spelling and grammar. The problem is also hindered by that there is no real standard english. American, British, International, Australian etc. And when you talk to several nationalities a night, spelling just blurs. As well as the fact that everone have their own slang words and word order.
So I call all my weird sayings and such, New Engrish. The sky is many blue. So long as it reads and makes sense where is the harm? All languages change and evolve. Ye Old'e english had a totally different style today, its changed the civilisation hasn't fallen.
The radiation is contained, and is mostly emitted as neutrons which makes the reactor casing radiactive. So materials with very short half-lifes have been chosen which means the casing is no-longer dangerous after a short amount of time. (ie a few years if that).
The ITER now being built in france should be the 1st reactor to give out more power than it takes to start the reaction. but then SHOULD is being the promanent word there.
Personally if the same amount of billions of $ and the haste and best engineers and scientists in the world where chucked at Wind turbines etc instead of the Hydrogen bomb, fission and fusion reactors. Renewables would probably be the most viable source of energy long term. But as it doesnt sound as flashy as nuclear, nuclear gets the funding.
I was thinking about this to myself the other day. How every coder I know uses MSN and that it could be called a n00b messenger. But if you don't use it and only use say IRC. And you meet someone new and get there phone/msn addy (i seem to do that a lot now) and you say: "I don't use msn/aim coz its for n00b's I use IRC get some skillz" You just sound like a twat. Aim/MSN is the messenger of the masses, and so to talk to the masses you have to use its protocol. Its almost like saying I dont use a phone because its for n00bs I use a home made radio and transmit in morse code you gonna be very lonely.
Radiation (i.e atomic, not just like any old radiation) is different to what a lot of people think. Chernobyl is now a nature park and you can go on a guided tour Article and Article
As well as walking round the erie cities themselves.
Gattaca is such a fantastic film. Everything in there is believable apart from the part that Jerome could probably have his back restored by stem cell research by then.
What people need to remember is SF doesn't have to be on a space-ship cruising through space. FTL or not. It can be down here on Earth.
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The gameplay is very similar Planetside. 3 Armor types, Light, Medium, Heavy. With scaled guns and abilities ( ie Light can Cloak, only Light and Med can hack ). Hack a point and spawn at/near it once hacked. Very much like planetside but smaller scale. and no lag/zerg.
But its a pretty game, cool graphics. But plays much like any other Team Deathmatch game.
The PSP is basically a portable PS2 (to all intents and purposes) and I think that is what gives the DS an advantage. As it has the completely different playing style. While your on the move do you want to play games in the same style you could at home, or something different? That is why I could by a DS over a PSP no-matter what Sony tries to market.
One system I have heard is 2 satelites with a cable between them, pulsing an electric current through the cable to induce a magnetic field. Can't remember if it is to either collect debris of deflect it down into the atmosphere. Quite effective its a couple of miles across.
your forgetting one missed produce. Food and veg that is weighed and priced. Like to see RFID do that.
apart from solitare and freecell are on linux. And Solitare is the most played computer game in the world. Every windows PC has it.
Well me and my mates used to have Friday Night games, all go round my mates place, (his rents brought him a house, they lived up country). Played games, drinked beer, passed out.
Partly because it was good fun, partly coz half of us didnt have fake IDs.
But then, I study Computer games Programming. Nothing like a few hours of research by player some BF2 or UT2K4.
but on a different note, a couple of staff made some Education Games for a project. Pretty cool.
That reminds me a bit (off topic i know) of opening really old office PC's. Installed Just after windows 95 or NT3.51/4 nice old P1 and P2 machines. Open the up and after almost 10 years of use the amount of dust inside of them is just ridiculous yet they still run happily.
But then they had much less heat to lose compared to a modern PC. Also they were pretty quiet. Some of those P1/P2 Machines only had a fan in the PSU. Passive Heatsinks.
To LEO yes, Saturn 5 can get into higher orbits (IIRC)
How about Theme Hospital 2?
When the original GTA came out, back in Britain it almost got banned (from what i remembered) and the threat of that made it sell like shit off a shovel.
Rockstar are riding the new wave. Rockstar North havnt overly reacted as
A) They want to make it look like the game could be banned, more sales now, at the Premium Price.
B) they are Scottish and don't give a shit about what some american's think about their game.
Well, if your under 18 you can only do it with ur eyes closed or in the perfect dark. Your allowed to do it, but not see it.
If it was designed to go directly through the PCI or PCI-E bus, instead of having to be plugged into a PCI slot and then having it take up a whole SATA slot. It might be worth it.
That way you would get better I/O throughput. But then its techinically more challenging.
Just out of curiousity how much power do ram modules need to stay in state? Could you make a card that sits between the ram and the motherboard to effectively hibernate ur PC? So If you had a powercut you don't lose wat you are working on. A poor mans UPS and a lot less bulky.
Vista is a stupid name, they should of kept to the whole 360 thing. (as if that was a good idea)
Become a part of the revolution - Windows 360 - Now windows allows you to view anything from any angle.
Either way, I'm not gonna buy it.
I'm running Alcohol 120% and get no problems.
Well I don't hide the fact that I have poor spelling and grammar. The problem is also hindered by that there is no real standard english. American, British, International, Australian etc. And when you talk to several nationalities a night, spelling just blurs. As well as the fact that everone have their own slang words and word order.
So I call all my weird sayings and such, New Engrish. The sky is many blue. So long as it reads and makes sense where is the harm? All languages change and evolve. Ye Old'e english had a totally different style today, its changed the civilisation hasn't fallen.
The radiation is contained, and is mostly emitted as neutrons which makes the reactor casing radiactive. So materials with very short half-lifes have been chosen which means the casing is no-longer dangerous after a short amount of time. (ie a few years if that).
The ITER now being built in france should be the 1st reactor to give out more power than it takes to start the reaction. but then SHOULD is being the promanent word there.
Personally if the same amount of billions of $ and the haste and best engineers and scientists in the world where chucked at Wind turbines etc instead of the Hydrogen bomb, fission and fusion reactors. Renewables would probably be the most viable source of energy long term. But as it doesnt sound as flashy as nuclear, nuclear gets the funding.
I was thinking about this to myself the other day. How every coder I know uses MSN and that it could be called a n00b messenger. But if you don't use it and only use say IRC. And you meet someone new and get there phone/msn addy (i seem to do that a lot now) and you say: "I don't use msn/aim coz its for n00b's I use IRC get some skillz" You just sound like a twat. Aim/MSN is the messenger of the masses, and so to talk to the masses you have to use its protocol. Its almost like saying I dont use a phone because its for n00bs I use a home made radio and transmit in morse code you gonna be very lonely.
See the senators flee in terror as hundreds of thousands of /.'ers shout GET /index.html HTTP/1.1 at them.
you think about this far too hard :P
All valid points though.
Radiation (i.e atomic, not just like any old radiation) is different to what a lot of people think. Chernobyl is now a nature park and you can go on a guided tour Article and Article
As well as walking round the erie cities themselves.
Gattaca is such a fantastic film. Everything in there is believable apart from the part that Jerome could probably have his back restored by stem cell research by then.
What people need to remember is SF doesn't have to be on a space-ship cruising through space. FTL or not. It can be down here on Earth.
they have got laser beams in the lab to travel faster than the accepted speed of light in the vacuum. Have a read here: Article
Im just wondering how it got modded +5 Interesting.
Inless that afternoon nap I had lasted more than a couple of hours (many years) and we have that technology now.