Step 1) Enter search terms in google news. Step 2) Read summaries, copy down date, publication, and issue number from google Step 3) Go to brick n mortor library and get free microfiche version Step 4) No one profits!
Wrong. A better analogy would be overselling college sporting events. At most college footbal stadiums, there are benches instead of numbered seats. Therefore, a bench that has capacity for say 25 people will be oversold to 35 people on the hopes that not everyone shows up (season ticket holders for example).
If for some reason everyone does show up, you gotta squeaze everyones ass on that same bench somehow and your level of comfort at the game drops (to relate back to the topic at hand, your tubes are now clogged and your internets will arrive days later).
I loved ROTT. Just running around shooting people with those mega-handheld-nuke missile weapons. In fact, I believe ROTT was the first game to introduce gibs into the genre. I don't seem to remember any game before ROTT that caused enemies to explode in that lovely red-rain of goodness.
Go back to college buddy, old curmudgeon is simply redundant. An oxymoron is a phrase where each word has opposite meaning, such as "military intelligence."
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The JumpDrive sport is great, I've been using it for years now. However, the rubber footy that is so great at holding it in place on your keychain is the same rubber piece that actually attaches to your keychain. Since the rubber isn't the strongest of materials, mine eventually cracked down the center, and it fell off of my keychain at some point and is now lost in oblivion.
At least if users were required to sign in in order to edit, malicious edits could be reported by user name and/or ip address, and they could be banned from editing if they get reported so many times. I believe the administrators role is to just keep a watch on the malicious reports and ban appropriate parties.
I think people often confuse "game developer" with "game designer." The game designers have all the fun, they get to create the storyline, characters, design the graphics, allt he fun stuff. The developers get to make the game engine work with 10^320931329 different PC configurations.
I don't think anyone really wants to be a game developer, as its just developing software and tedious at that. I think most people want to design the games.
Most PC games are scalable. Thats why they have the "Graphics Options" menu, where you can turn up or down all the shinys available in whatever engine the game is using.
I think its great that they aren't releasing on the PS3, Xbox or Wii. It means we will get a solid, PC-centric game instead of some crappy console port ala Oblivion. While I love Oblivion, it is very clear the PC is an afterthough with the way the user interface functions.
Also, if performance was the biggest issue, Oblivion should run great on everyone's high end PC, since it was also released for the Xbox360. Oh wait, it was released for the Xbox and STILL chokes on the PC. I don't think this thing with Crysis is a performance issue as much as wanting to create a solid PC game.
Amazing: even as culturally advanced as we fancy ourselves, we still retain those ancient urges to believe in the fantastic.
In the past, myths were used to explain the unexplainable at he time: stars, weather, seasons, etc. Today, I believe myths have a different use. Despite the fact that we know they are made up, fantasy worlds such as star trek, star wars, lotr, help us to escape what amounts to the daily grind. We get up, go to work, go home, make dinner for most of our lives, with a week or two of real vacation worked in per year. I think people enjoy these fantasy worlds so that they can place themselves in the world, and escape this one.
This is at least one of the reasons I play video games or watch epic movies: I can place myself in the role of the hero in a much more action-packed exciting world.
Mod parent +1 insightful. Nice find, apparently even the films we believe are original are just copies of 30 year old movies.
Instead of blatently stating the movie is a remake in the marketing campaign, let's just hide the fact. No one watches movies from the 70's anymore anyway, right????
Spools would be ridiculously annoying after about the 10th time you have to grab the CD on the bottom of the stack.
We need to ask this question to the submitter: Is there some legal requirement for keeping the data on physical media? I mean, they are on CD's, really its no different than keeping the data on some hard drive. The only thing that's changed is the storage medium, its still all electronic data. Why not invest in some sort of large network storage device, and keep the data there? As long as regular backups are maintained, this should be fine.
IMHO, in this day and age keeping physical copies of most records is pointless and wastes space/time/money.
flying an airplane is a privlege, like driving. in my state, if you get pulled over under a suspision of dwi, and you refuse an alchohol test, you lose your privlege to drive. if you don't want your bag searched on an airplane, don't fly.
Would you care if cops randomly pulled you over to search your trunk, you know, just because? Maybe your make and model of car was recently used in some terrorist exploit? Driving is a priviledge, so according to your logic you shouldn't care at all. Just don't drive!
and personally, i don't care if bush is listening to my phone calls. he would probably be bored to tears.
You don't care, but I do and so do millions of other americans. And if I was a member of the Democratic party, I certainly would care if Bush was listening to my phone calls regarding campaign strategy.
and i'm not touching the last part, because i agree with that one. there was a study that said (don't ask me where it was, i heard it on the radio) that people decide if someone is trustworthy with in the first.1 second. i don't think it's right, but i find my self doing it too. some of the brightest people on earth aren't american, or western european, or white, etc.
Big deal. It states this in that good ol' 200+ year old document. That doesn't mean we are getting the privacy that is guaranteed. The president is tapping into our phone conversations as we speak. Random people are having their bags dumped out and scrutinized at the airports. Arab-americans are being harassed just because of their nationality.
Our privacy is a constitutional right in the US, but we don't have it. The president won't be impeached over it. Which would you rather have, actual freedom or the illusion of guarandeed freedom?
You obviously didn't understand my original post. Yes, this terrorist op took place in England, however the terror alert thinga-ma-jig is in the good ol' United States of America, which is as red as it can be.
I see no one has taken up my challenge of naming one useful aspect of the US terror alert system. I think that indeed proves my point to some extent that it is useless and only there for political gain by the GOP.
I like how my post is modded Troll, Flamebait, and Insightful. I bet that breaks down to Republican, Republican, non-Republican (democrat, libertarian, who knows)
Its because the terror alerts, both in the US and UK, are only meant to scare people. They mean absolutely shit. I don't know how it works in the UK, but it seems that the US gov just randomly shoots it between yellow and orange most of the time. Need more people scared so that they vote for warmongering politicians? Raise that alert level to orange! Need to really get peoples nerves going? Red's the way to go!!
In short, the alert level is a bunch of political bullshit. If anyone can tell me how it helps keep the public safe, please correct me. I mean, what are we supposed to do on high alert levels, question our neighbors? Turn our parents into the authorities for anti-party thoughts???
The author of TFA is just dumb and doesn't know what he is talking about. First he says that Microsoft Atlas is open source. Then, it sounds like he truly believes that Java and Javascript are related in some way. Besides some similar syntax, they are both mutually exclusive.
when are people going to realize that Javascript and Java share only a name???
I think its because every once in a while, WotC comes out with a "stand alone" expansion pack. Its basically works out to a starting point for new players. Instead of playing with the core set where you'll get pwned in tournaments by people who have 15 years worth of cards collected you can play in a, lets say "Ice Age" only tourney (I use ice age cuz thats when I got off the crack^h^h^h^h card game). This works to help reduce the cost of entry, and allow new people a chance to catch up, or just play from that point on.
Even if a patent was granted to another company, wouldn't Amazon still be safe under prior art?
I thought patents were supposed to be for actual inventions. You know, those innovative ideas that change the way we live out our daily lives? Since when does a subscription service count as an innovative idea. Why doesn't amazon just apply for a patent for "a web-based ecommerce sevice where people click on shit, buy it with a credit card, and have it shipped to their house???" This is asinine.
I prefer the beige box, let your creativity loose and paint it whatever color you want. I would always prefer to mod and customize the looks of my PC, and this is really only possible on a "blank slate" beige box. The pre-modded systems that oems sell are just horrid looking for the most part.
Its kind of like why people enjoy decorating their rooms/dorms/etc with posters and other such junk: they want their living space to be an extension of themselves and their personality/interests. The PC is just another extension of this.
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Step 1) Enter search terms in google news.
Step 2) Read summaries, copy down date, publication, and issue number from google
Step 3) Go to brick n mortor library and get free microfiche version
Step 4) No one profits!
My other ride is the Millenium Falcon, you insensitive clod!
Wrong. A better analogy would be overselling college sporting events. At most college footbal stadiums, there are benches instead of numbered seats. Therefore, a bench that has capacity for say 25 people will be oversold to 35 people on the hopes that not everyone shows up (season ticket holders for example).
If for some reason everyone does show up, you gotta squeaze everyones ass on that same bench somehow and your level of comfort at the game drops (to relate back to the topic at hand, your tubes are now clogged and your internets will arrive days later).
I loved ROTT. Just running around shooting people with those mega-handheld-nuke missile weapons. In fact, I believe ROTT was the first game to introduce gibs into the genre. I don't seem to remember any game before ROTT that caused enemies to explode in that lovely red-rain of goodness.
Could it be that Wolf3d was the first game (or fps) to feature relatively graphic depictions of gunning dowon humans for the time?
Go back to college buddy, old curmudgeon is simply redundant. An oxymoron is a phrase where each word has opposite meaning, such as "military intelligence."
The JumpDrive sport is great, I've been using it for years now. However, the rubber footy that is so great at holding it in place on your keychain is the same rubber piece that actually attaches to your keychain. Since the rubber isn't the strongest of materials, mine eventually cracked down the center, and it fell off of my keychain at some point and is now lost in oblivion.
At least if users were required to sign in in order to edit, malicious edits could be reported by user name and/or ip address, and they could be banned from editing if they get reported so many times. I believe the administrators role is to just keep a watch on the malicious reports and ban appropriate parties.
I think people often confuse "game developer" with "game designer." The game designers have all the fun, they get to create the storyline, characters, design the graphics, allt he fun stuff. The developers get to make the game engine work with 10^320931329 different PC configurations.
I don't think anyone really wants to be a game developer, as its just developing software and tedious at that. I think most people want to design the games.
Most PC games are scalable. Thats why they have the "Graphics Options" menu, where you can turn up or down all the shinys available in whatever engine the game is using.
I think its great that they aren't releasing on the PS3, Xbox or Wii. It means we will get a solid, PC-centric game instead of some crappy console port ala Oblivion. While I love Oblivion, it is very clear the PC is an afterthough with the way the user interface functions.
Also, if performance was the biggest issue, Oblivion should run great on everyone's high end PC, since it was also released for the Xbox360. Oh wait, it was released for the Xbox and STILL chokes on the PC. I don't think this thing with Crysis is a performance issue as much as wanting to create a solid PC game.
Amazing: even as culturally advanced as we fancy ourselves, we still retain those ancient urges to believe in the fantastic.
In the past, myths were used to explain the unexplainable at he time: stars, weather, seasons, etc. Today, I believe myths have a different use. Despite the fact that we know they are made up, fantasy worlds such as star trek, star wars, lotr, help us to escape what amounts to the daily grind. We get up, go to work, go home, make dinner for most of our lives, with a week or two of real vacation worked in per year. I think people enjoy these fantasy worlds so that they can place themselves in the world, and escape this one.
This is at least one of the reasons I play video games or watch epic movies: I can place myself in the role of the hero in a much more action-packed exciting world.
Mod parent +1 insightful. Nice find, apparently even the films we believe are original are just copies of 30 year old movies.
Instead of blatently stating the movie is a remake in the marketing campaign, let's just hide the fact. No one watches movies from the 70's anymore anyway, right????
Spools would be ridiculously annoying after about the 10th time you have to grab the CD on the bottom of the stack.
We need to ask this question to the submitter: Is there some legal requirement for keeping the data on physical media? I mean, they are on CD's, really its no different than keeping the data on some hard drive. The only thing that's changed is the storage medium, its still all electronic data. Why not invest in some sort of large network storage device, and keep the data there? As long as regular backups are maintained, this should be fine.
IMHO, in this day and age keeping physical copies of most records is pointless and wastes space/time/money.
It's sort of like Kool-Ade... duuuuh
flying an airplane is a privlege, like driving. in my state, if you get pulled over under a suspision of dwi, and you refuse an alchohol test, you lose your privlege to drive. if you don't want your bag searched on an airplane, don't fly.
.1 second. i don't think it's right, but i find my self doing it too. some of the brightest people on earth aren't american, or western european, or white, etc.
Would you care if cops randomly pulled you over to search your trunk, you know, just because? Maybe your make and model of car was recently used in some terrorist exploit? Driving is a priviledge, so according to your logic you shouldn't care at all. Just don't drive!
and personally, i don't care if bush is listening to my phone calls. he would probably be bored to tears.
You don't care, but I do and so do millions of other americans. And if I was a member of the Democratic party, I certainly would care if Bush was listening to my phone calls regarding campaign strategy.
and i'm not touching the last part, because i agree with that one. there was a study that said (don't ask me where it was, i heard it on the radio) that people decide if someone is trustworthy with in the first
Agreed.
Big deal. It states this in that good ol' 200+ year old document. That doesn't mean we are getting the privacy that is guaranteed. The president is tapping into our phone conversations as we speak. Random people are having their bags dumped out and scrutinized at the airports. Arab-americans are being harassed just because of their nationality.
Our privacy is a constitutional right in the US, but we don't have it. The president won't be impeached over it. Which would you rather have, actual freedom or the illusion of guarandeed freedom?
SPiced hAM - the meat of the gods, the meat that got the United States out of the great depression. Bow down to its unnaturally-pink goodness.
I have karma to burn, so whatever here it goes
You obviously didn't understand my original post. Yes, this terrorist op took place in England, however the terror alert thinga-ma-jig is in the good ol' United States of America, which is as red as it can be.
I see no one has taken up my challenge of naming one useful aspect of the US terror alert system. I think that indeed proves my point to some extent that it is useless and only there for political gain by the GOP.
I like how my post is modded Troll, Flamebait, and Insightful. I bet that breaks down to Republican, Republican, non-Republican (democrat, libertarian, who knows)
Its because the terror alerts, both in the US and UK, are only meant to scare people. They mean absolutely shit. I don't know how it works in the UK, but it seems that the US gov just randomly shoots it between yellow and orange most of the time. Need more people scared so that they vote for warmongering politicians? Raise that alert level to orange! Need to really get peoples nerves going? Red's the way to go!!
In short, the alert level is a bunch of political bullshit. If anyone can tell me how it helps keep the public safe, please correct me. I mean, what are we supposed to do on high alert levels, question our neighbors? Turn our parents into the authorities for anti-party thoughts???
personal names, addresses, social security numbers and everything else someone might type into a search box.
Who in their right mind would type their social security number in a search box, in plain text??? I mean, really???
The author of TFA is just dumb and doesn't know what he is talking about. First he says that Microsoft Atlas is open source. Then, it sounds like he truly believes that Java and Javascript are related in some way. Besides some similar syntax, they are both mutually exclusive.
when are people going to realize that Javascript and Java share only a name???
I think its because every once in a while, WotC comes out with a "stand alone" expansion pack. Its basically works out to a starting point for new players. Instead of playing with the core set where you'll get pwned in tournaments by people who have 15 years worth of cards collected you can play in a, lets say "Ice Age" only tourney (I use ice age cuz thats when I got off the crack^h^h^h^h card game). This works to help reduce the cost of entry, and allow new people a chance to catch up, or just play from that point on.
Even if a patent was granted to another company, wouldn't Amazon still be safe under prior art?
I thought patents were supposed to be for actual inventions. You know, those innovative ideas that change the way we live out our daily lives? Since when does a subscription service count as an innovative idea. Why doesn't amazon just apply for a patent for "a web-based ecommerce sevice where people click on shit, buy it with a credit card, and have it shipped to their house???" This is asinine.
I prefer the beige box, let your creativity loose and paint it whatever color you want. I would always prefer to mod and customize the looks of my PC, and this is really only possible on a "blank slate" beige box. The pre-modded systems that oems sell are just horrid looking for the most part.
Its kind of like why people enjoy decorating their rooms/dorms/etc with posters and other such junk: they want their living space to be an extension of themselves and their personality/interests. The PC is just another extension of this.
For some pretty nice looking PC's, check out Virtual Hideout's cool case gallery