Myself and three friends get together every weekend and play video games. Yes, we play consoles games, sitting around in front of a TV, but we more often play LAN on our laptops. Sins of a Solar Empire, Starcraft, Age of Mythology, and more. The PC multiplayer experice doesn't have to be that way, you just choose to make it that way.
The PC is dead as a gaming platform? Lies. If you don't have the know-how to deal with an occasional driver issue, you should just chuck your PC now and go buy a Mac. Constant hardware upgrades? Once or twice in a period of 4 years, at most, to keep your PC FAR above the abilities of any console. PC has been "dying" for about two generations according to folks like you. Just let it play out, so you don't look like a moron when it keeps on ticking.
Dang it... Almost thought this whole Telecom situation was looking up for a moment. Obviously this won't be able to pass over the President's head. Perhaps they'll give it another shot after the election. Will it be too late then?
I have the commemorative re-release of the original novels, and oddly enough, it does not say Belgium in that version. I kid you not, it says that it's the "Award for the Most Gratuitous Use of the Word "Fuck".
As scientists, however, we are supposed to support whatever is most substantiated by experimental evidence. Yes, no one was there to see it happen, but we know for certain it is entirely possible, and indeed likely. The description of God is such that a believer could make it logical in their minds that he did anything, and in fact did everything, without any actual evidence. We should be above that.
I've considered such a thing as well. Kind of like a combination of Empire at War and Battlefront. Both good games. Ever tried Savage? It does some aspects of this idea quite well.
I agree with you for the most part. Honestly, anything on NBC or Fox WILL be screwed up. NBC because of their shameful product placement and other practices (see any episode of The Office after it became popular, every three seconds there's an advertisement, then for half of the broadcast more blatantly in commercials), and Fox because... Well, most of their stuff sucks, and every time they get something good, they tent to screw it up. See: Firefly, Sliders. In both cases, Fox's demands for more sex and violence hurt the shows badly (See every episode of Sliders after Season 2 when Fox started interfering, where it ceased to be about the interesting situations and started to have a lot more guns, and the main was replaced by a Kirk wannabe, and every single reason Firefly was canceled. The whole character of Inara was made up because Fox insisted on a Space Hooker). I haven't watched Reaper, but all the other shows you mentioned are my personal favorites, though I probably wouldn't admit to watching Pushing Daisies. Other than that, there has been some fantastic television to come out of BBC. Ashes to Ashes promises to be fantastic, the predecessor Life on Mars was one of the best shows I've ever watched, and the latest run of Doctor Who is incredible.
Who knows, maybe they have self-destruct mechanisms for ready-made space denial if it became necessary. Perhaps it will mysteriously break up into minor pieces right before it begins entering the atmosphere.
Are you suggesting that the difference between a well-adjusted child and a brat is their particular taste in video games? That's downright wrong. Besides, the issue is video games as a whole, not fanboyish arguments about which.
They're sending a paper airplane up. I don't think that's an enormous addition to the cost of the regular trips. Hell, an astronaut could carry a piece of paper and make it when they get up there. No big deal. But still awesome.
I considered this too. I mean, most of our re-entry vehicles don't really have much of an option, but could a paper airplane with an appropriate design re-enter the atmosphere slow enough to avoid the heat and such? I can see no reason why not. Then again, the atmosphere up there is very, very thin, so it would likely get up a lot of speed by the time it got through to the thicker atmosphere. I'd be more concerned about designing it to fly slow enough in thin atmosphere than in thick. Also, how will they know if it survives? It could land virtually anywhere within a hemisphere. I say the folks on the ISS make an enormous mass of paper airplanes of all sorts and designs, and release them all at once. It would be unbelievably cool, and a fun experiment.
Space militarization with current technology is extraordinarily foolish. Most major world powers have the capacity to take out satellites from the ground nowMost major world powers have the capacity to take out satellites from the ground now, and if they ever did this in large numbers, the space above our planet would immediately become useless for decades because the debris produced. Moon militarization on the other hand offers many interesting options. Makes me slightly suspicious of Bush's push for a moon base, even if I agree with it.
I don't mind them taking time to get it right, but a second delay is quite unprofessional. I think that they should release a demo in all regions to make up for the delay. They already plan to release a demo in Japan, and I know that they have multiple demo builds from events like Whooby, E for All, and a couple others that they could simply upload onto the Wii Shop, or distribute disks of in Nintendo Power. It would be easy for them to do, and it would placate the masses (including myself). I have sent them an email to this effect already. If enough people do, perhaps they'll listen. It seems downright silly that they don't plan to release a demo outside Japan already.
http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/webform.jsp
Apologies for the unnecessary correction, but it's Sim City 4, not 4000. Just nitpicking, I'm afraid. Honestly, though, I thought 3000 was the best. Sim City 4 is just entirely unforgiving.
In fact, they released a service that allows you to download DS demos through your Wii in December. At least, in Japan. Still waiting for release in the rest of the world.
Isn't his underlying point (that video games make killers out of innocent youths) undercut by the simple fact that he's still around to make it? He's pissed off more gamers than just about any other person I can think of, so if all gamers are videogame-trained killing machines, how could he possibly still be alive?
I misread the article and thought it said "Dolphins May Disappear After Search". I was all ready to make a couple Hitchhiker's Guide jokes, then make some quantum physics joke about them disappearing only after attempting to observe them. Oh well.
There's also the problem that, if we are in a simulated universe, that the computer we are running on may only be capable of running a small number of universes at a time. Therefore, if we were to begin attempting to run our own simulations, the computer would be taxed even more. If we continued to do so, we could outgrow the computer's capacity. Then the entities in charge would have to do something about it, be it make contact to stop us from doing it, simply programming the simulation so it's impossible, or... destroying our universe.
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Myself and three friends get together every weekend and play video games. Yes, we play consoles games, sitting around in front of a TV, but we more often play LAN on our laptops. Sins of a Solar Empire, Starcraft, Age of Mythology, and more. The PC multiplayer experice doesn't have to be that way, you just choose to make it that way.
The PC is dead as a gaming platform? Lies. If you don't have the know-how to deal with an occasional driver issue, you should just chuck your PC now and go buy a Mac. Constant hardware upgrades? Once or twice in a period of 4 years, at most, to keep your PC FAR above the abilities of any console. PC has been "dying" for about two generations according to folks like you. Just let it play out, so you don't look like a moron when it keeps on ticking.
Dang it... Almost thought this whole Telecom situation was looking up for a moment. Obviously this won't be able to pass over the President's head. Perhaps they'll give it another shot after the election. Will it be too late then?
They also suggested that the answer (or the Question, rather) in Arthur's brain was obfuscated by the presence of the Golgafrinchans.
I have the commemorative re-release of the original novels, and oddly enough, it does not say Belgium in that version. I kid you not, it says that it's the "Award for the Most Gratuitous Use of the Word "Fuck".
I thought the pope supported big bang theory? New pope not so cool about it?
You must be joking. US economic imperialism? We can't keep our own economy going properly, much less control others.
As scientists, however, we are supposed to support whatever is most substantiated by experimental evidence. Yes, no one was there to see it happen, but we know for certain it is entirely possible, and indeed likely. The description of God is such that a believer could make it logical in their minds that he did anything, and in fact did everything, without any actual evidence. We should be above that.
When you're God, you don't have to settle for SMALLER scale models.
I've considered such a thing as well. Kind of like a combination of Empire at War and Battlefront. Both good games. Ever tried Savage? It does some aspects of this idea quite well.
I agree with you for the most part. Honestly, anything on NBC or Fox WILL be screwed up. NBC because of their shameful product placement and other practices (see any episode of The Office after it became popular, every three seconds there's an advertisement, then for half of the broadcast more blatantly in commercials), and Fox because... Well, most of their stuff sucks, and every time they get something good, they tent to screw it up. See: Firefly, Sliders. In both cases, Fox's demands for more sex and violence hurt the shows badly (See every episode of Sliders after Season 2 when Fox started interfering, where it ceased to be about the interesting situations and started to have a lot more guns, and the main was replaced by a Kirk wannabe, and every single reason Firefly was canceled. The whole character of Inara was made up because Fox insisted on a Space Hooker). I haven't watched Reaper, but all the other shows you mentioned are my personal favorites, though I probably wouldn't admit to watching Pushing Daisies. Other than that, there has been some fantastic television to come out of BBC. Ashes to Ashes promises to be fantastic, the predecessor Life on Mars was one of the best shows I've ever watched, and the latest run of Doctor Who is incredible.
It's Doctor Evil you insensitive clod!
Who knows, maybe they have self-destruct mechanisms for ready-made space denial if it became necessary. Perhaps it will mysteriously break up into minor pieces right before it begins entering the atmosphere.
Are you suggesting that the difference between a well-adjusted child and a brat is their particular taste in video games? That's downright wrong. Besides, the issue is video games as a whole, not fanboyish arguments about which.
They're sending a paper airplane up. I don't think that's an enormous addition to the cost of the regular trips. Hell, an astronaut could carry a piece of paper and make it when they get up there. No big deal. But still awesome.
I considered this too. I mean, most of our re-entry vehicles don't really have much of an option, but could a paper airplane with an appropriate design re-enter the atmosphere slow enough to avoid the heat and such? I can see no reason why not. Then again, the atmosphere up there is very, very thin, so it would likely get up a lot of speed by the time it got through to the thicker atmosphere. I'd be more concerned about designing it to fly slow enough in thin atmosphere than in thick. Also, how will they know if it survives? It could land virtually anywhere within a hemisphere. I say the folks on the ISS make an enormous mass of paper airplanes of all sorts and designs, and release them all at once. It would be unbelievably cool, and a fun experiment.
Space militarization with current technology is extraordinarily foolish. Most major world powers have the capacity to take out satellites from the ground nowMost major world powers have the capacity to take out satellites from the ground now, and if they ever did this in large numbers, the space above our planet would immediately become useless for decades because the debris produced. Moon militarization on the other hand offers many interesting options. Makes me slightly suspicious of Bush's push for a moon base, even if I agree with it.
I don't mind them taking time to get it right, but a second delay is quite unprofessional. I think that they should release a demo in all regions to make up for the delay. They already plan to release a demo in Japan, and I know that they have multiple demo builds from events like Whooby, E for All, and a couple others that they could simply upload onto the Wii Shop, or distribute disks of in Nintendo Power. It would be easy for them to do, and it would placate the masses (including myself). I have sent them an email to this effect already. If enough people do, perhaps they'll listen. It seems downright silly that they don't plan to release a demo outside Japan already. http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/webform.jsp
257,000 and counting! Keep it up.
Apologies for the unnecessary correction, but it's Sim City 4, not 4000. Just nitpicking, I'm afraid. Honestly, though, I thought 3000 was the best. Sim City 4 is just entirely unforgiving.
Not that I don't love XKCD, but is this really /.-worthy? Oh well. Still, awesome, and each post only serves to compound the results!
In fact, they released a service that allows you to download DS demos through your Wii in December. At least, in Japan. Still waiting for release in the rest of the world.
Isn't his underlying point (that video games make killers out of innocent youths) undercut by the simple fact that he's still around to make it? He's pissed off more gamers than just about any other person I can think of, so if all gamers are videogame-trained killing machines, how could he possibly still be alive?
I misread the article and thought it said "Dolphins May Disappear After Search". I was all ready to make a couple Hitchhiker's Guide jokes, then make some quantum physics joke about them disappearing only after attempting to observe them. Oh well.
There's also the problem that, if we are in a simulated universe, that the computer we are running on may only be capable of running a small number of universes at a time. Therefore, if we were to begin attempting to run our own simulations, the computer would be taxed even more. If we continued to do so, we could outgrow the computer's capacity. Then the entities in charge would have to do something about it, be it make contact to stop us from doing it, simply programming the simulation so it's impossible, or... destroying our universe.