If it was possible to land a probe on the moon for less than $30 million, then what would be the point in this competition? Google could do it themselves, and get much more PR for that. Who knows, maybe there's someone out there who could do it for $25 million, but hasn't had the funding. Until now.
Seems ok, maybe too much like SS2 though...
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I've been playing it for a couple of hours, and it seems ok, even though the linearity pissed me off at the beginning. Only gripe I have is that it seems very similar to SS2, from all the ghosts banging doors, vendor machines, self modifying, hacking and down to even the recordings left around by the denizens. It seems so SS2:ish, that I wouldn't even be surprised if the guy sending me messages and helping me along turns out to be Andrew Ryan (which was the plot in SS2)!
Sure, it's supposed to be the spiritual successor to SS2, but changing the formula even a little bit wouldn't hurt. This isn't EA Sports after all...
1. Watch as customers share url with friends.
2. Go berserk because of ringtone piracy.
3. Make the autorun on the cd install a rootkit which completely hijacks the browser and prevents the user from finding out the url.
4. Profit?
One could even imagine a completely separate node product, that would be lacking in features and mobility, but would run from grid power and would have much better range. This could be used by citizen organizations to improve coverage in some places, or maybe for households that want to improve coverage in their own neighborhood. It wouldn't even necessarily cost more than the mobile phone version.
MPlayer plays anything I throw at it, and is open source. I used to have VLC, but got disappointed in its buggy subtitle support. Best of all, Mplayer doesn't have a GUI, so the visual bloat is minimal.
That has nothing to do with the "global economy" (whatever that is), and everything to do with biofuel shenanigans. Why would farmers sell their wares as food when they get much more from selling them as fuel?
Energy would be a much better currency than gold, but how would you use it in trade? And what about energy losses? Inflation of paper currency is already bad enough, but now we would have to start worrying about our money literally disappearing into thin air. The reason gold is popular as an alternative is its rarity and ease of storage. You don't need tons of it to buy a house, but you would need a lot of batteries to do the same.
It's not about running multiple games at the same time, it's about using the GPU in general processing. Running two games simultaneously is stupid, but would you be okay with only being able to run one GPGPU application at a time? Now that AMD is working on GPU extensions to x86, it's only a matter of time before GPGPU computing becomes mainstream. That's when you'll be able to appreciate the ability to multi-task your GPU.
I think eBay's reasoning behind preventing modchipped consoles from being auctioned is that they're often used to play pirated games. This iPhone hack allows one to use a different operator, which is not illegal AFAIK.
Well no, of course not. But understanding the genome will help us develop countermeasures to evolving threats. Auditing the genes to discover flaws and exploits, if you will.
which is done realtime, no grinding necessary to advance
Eve has the worst grinding of any MMO I have tried to date. I had to grind asteroids and missions for a month before I could even afford anything interesting. Then I went and lost my new-fangled cruiser the very next week to some griefer. At least you don't lose levels or gear in WoW...
But I guess that's what makes Eve unique. You can always be certain that your victim in PvP just lost weeks/months of progress, and I'm sure that appeals to hardcore gamers (and masochists?;).
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Not really. One cruise missile costs $1.3 million. But I agree with the spirit of your post.
How about developing one?
If it was possible to land a probe on the moon for less than $30 million, then what would be the point in this competition? Google could do it themselves, and get much more PR for that. Who knows, maybe there's someone out there who could do it for $25 million, but hasn't had the funding. Until now.
And the energy produced when the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere annihilates the anti-carbon dioxide would solve our energy problems for all time!
*throws chair*
I've been playing it for a couple of hours, and it seems ok, even though the linearity pissed me off at the beginning. Only gripe I have is that it seems very similar to SS2, from all the ghosts banging doors, vendor machines, self modifying, hacking and down to even the recordings left around by the denizens. It seems so SS2:ish, that I wouldn't even be surprised if the guy sending me messages and helping me along turns out to be Andrew Ryan (which was the plot in SS2)!
Sure, it's supposed to be the spiritual successor to SS2, but changing the formula even a little bit wouldn't hurt. This isn't EA Sports after all...
1. Watch as customers share url with friends.
2. Go berserk because of ringtone piracy.
3. Make the autorun on the cd install a rootkit which completely hijacks the browser and prevents the user from finding out the url.
4. Profit?
One could even imagine a completely separate node product, that would be lacking in features and mobility, but would run from grid power and would have much better range. This could be used by citizen organizations to improve coverage in some places, or maybe for households that want to improve coverage in their own neighborhood. It wouldn't even necessarily cost more than the mobile phone version.
Probably want the unlicensed spectrum for themselves.
Why change for the content when you can change the content.
MPlayer plays anything I throw at it, and is open source. I used to have VLC, but got disappointed in its buggy subtitle support. Best of all, Mplayer doesn't have a GUI, so the visual bloat is minimal.
That has nothing to do with the "global economy" (whatever that is), and everything to do with biofuel shenanigans. Why would farmers sell their wares as food when they get much more from selling them as fuel?
Come on people, it's just pixels on a screen, goatse can't hurt you.
sudo in soviet russia && insensitive clod
I have to admit, that would be pretty cool. Figuratively speaking.
Energy would be a much better currency than gold, but how would you use it in trade? And what about energy losses? Inflation of paper currency is already bad enough, but now we would have to start worrying about our money literally disappearing into thin air. The reason gold is popular as an alternative is its rarity and ease of storage. You don't need tons of it to buy a house, but you would need a lot of batteries to do the same.
It's not about running multiple games at the same time, it's about using the GPU in general processing. Running two games simultaneously is stupid, but would you be okay with only being able to run one GPGPU application at a time? Now that AMD is working on GPU extensions to x86, it's only a matter of time before GPGPU computing becomes mainstream. That's when you'll be able to appreciate the ability to multi-task your GPU.
I clicked that link and got disappointed when it wasn't Ballmer raving on about developers. :P
I think eBay's reasoning behind preventing modchipped consoles from being auctioned is that they're often used to play pirated games. This iPhone hack allows one to use a different operator, which is not illegal AFAIK.
Very charming.
Well no, of course not. But understanding the genome will help us develop countermeasures to evolving threats. Auditing the genes to discover flaws and exploits, if you will.
But I guess that's what makes Eve unique. You can always be certain that your victim in PvP just lost weeks/months of progress, and I'm sure that appeals to hardcore gamers (and masochists?