Anyone remember there were the 30+ story mechs along with the mini body-suit mechs? The pic in the article looks just like the beginning of those mini ones. So by that reasoning around the turn of the next millennium we'll have the huge ones, but any dedicated gamer saw this coming well over a decade ago.
Can't wait for trial by combat!
How long did it take the Wright brothers to package and sell their idea?
Well after the first real flight (of their glider) at Kitty Hawk in 1902, then they start selling their idea 7 years later in 1909 to the US government. And still commercial flight didn't come around until about the 1930's?
So use that, but just add outer space...or take away the air, either way.
We won't see safe, public space flight for at least 15 years.
I remember when I got WoW when it first came out. I played it and had a grand old time. People were friendly and helpful, kind and respectful. I'm assuming because everyone was new and figuring out the game. Yet for some reason (it happens with EVERY GAME, esp MMO's), when people get knowledgeable of the game they're patience dies and they become self-absorbed grinding bastards. It seems this attitude is spilling over into Vanguard, and it's just in the BETA! Maybe this breed of MMO pseudo-llama is corrupting our games... Why do we have no tolerance when we hit 60?
Yet another example of the RIAA's desperation. The internet is destroying their distribution, even some of their promotion. Production can be done almost entirely on the end users' computers. There is no need for major labels to pick who are the big pop bands now. Instead of 10 giant bands making millions, I'd MUCH rather have 1000 good bands making thousands while the LISTENERS actually determine who gets listened to. Not some swashbuckling label who pays radio stations to jam their product in our ears. Apparently XM isn't on the payroll...
Exactly, If I (the user/consumer) write an extra chapter to a book, or an extra scene in a movie, that should have no effect whatsoever on the commercial/stock version of whatever I'm changing.
Mods are one of the best things to happen to software. With out them we wouldn't have the ingenious people working on the things we love (CS).
Ok, so:
1) Thanks for the update, I've got my "new learn of the day"
2) Rev. 12:9 - "devil and Satan...who deceives the whole world"
3) Go F your A you cowardly D
Or perhaps those little handheld devices that have exploded in popularity in the past 5 years? What are they again? Oh yeah, cell phones. Or as I see 'em, the future "Remotes for the world." If you haven't realized this then you need not worry as you're probably 80 years of age and don't care much for the immediate future as all it contains is your demise. However for the tech-savvy rest of us it's quite clear. Cell phones have already turned into cameras, personal schedules, calenders, and note takers, CHAT TEXTERS (which is a whole different story, and evil), even audio recorders. The list goes on and the technology is only getting more and more improved. Eventually this little handheld device will replace all the other little handheld devices into one nice little handheld device to control all the larger, NON-handheld devices that are inevitably going to be implimented in our homes, cars, and just about everything else with an circuit inside of it. If you don't belive me, check out Mr. Rekimoto and his little invention that's going to REPLACE YOUR FREAKIN' WALLS!
In regards to the barcode: On every individually sold package in the U.S., (not each individual product, but the main container or package, etc., it came in) there is a bar code with two thin lines on the left end, two thin lines in the middle, and two thin lines on the right end, all hanging down below the majority of the bar code. As I understand it these two thin lines represent a 6 in the bar code code. Thus, a 666 is on every product, bought and sold in America. Now I'm no religious scholar, nor much of a god fearing man, but that's one hell of a coincidence. Check it out for yourself. Again: it won't be on that bottle of coke, or bag of chips you got in the vending machine, but it will be on the box those were shipped in. Who the hell appointed stanists when they were setting up this system?
It's best to compare the ESRB rating to the movie rating system. T for teen with notes: blood, gore, sexual suggestions, etc, is a much better system compared to PG-13, or R, without any inditcation of why short of the movie title. Green blood does make the game less violent, as it's less realistic. Granted you're still blowing away demons with shotguns. But who knows? Maybe demons do have green blood...And with the title "DOOM", I think expectations of pentagrams aren't too far fetched. Should a movie or a game have a more mature rating simply because of a pentagram or perhaps a swastica? How about a less mature rating if there's a lot of yellow smiley faces around? But hey, what's the big difference between 5 second or 3 seconds of "thrusting" in a motion picture sex scene?
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Anyone remember there were the 30+ story mechs along with the mini body-suit mechs? The pic in the article looks just like the beginning of those mini ones. So by that reasoning around the turn of the next millennium we'll have the huge ones, but any dedicated gamer saw this coming well over a decade ago. Can't wait for trial by combat!
How long did it take the Wright brothers to package and sell their idea?
Well after the first real flight (of their glider) at Kitty Hawk in 1902, then they start selling their idea 7 years later in 1909 to the US government. And still commercial flight didn't come around until about the 1930's?
So use that, but just add outer space...or take away the air, either way.
We won't see safe, public space flight for at least 15 years.
Yeah...and what's the deal with some people calling it "paper, scissors, rock" or some other crazy order that isn't R.P.S.?
"...or the people who run the world (NOT the U.S. govt, the guys above that - the ones who are really runnig things)..." Huh? The Illuminati?
I remember when I got WoW when it first came out. I played it and had a grand old time. People were friendly and helpful, kind and respectful. I'm assuming because everyone was new and figuring out the game. Yet for some reason (it happens with EVERY GAME, esp MMO's), when people get knowledgeable of the game they're patience dies and they become self-absorbed grinding bastards. It seems this attitude is spilling over into Vanguard, and it's just in the BETA! Maybe this breed of MMO pseudo-llama is corrupting our games...
Why do we have no tolerance when we hit 60?
Yet another example of the RIAA's desperation. The internet is destroying their distribution, even some of their promotion. Production can be done almost entirely on the end users' computers. There is no need for major labels to pick who are the big pop bands now. Instead of 10 giant bands making millions, I'd MUCH rather have 1000 good bands making thousands while the LISTENERS actually determine who gets listened to. Not some swashbuckling label who pays radio stations to jam their product in our ears. Apparently XM isn't on the payroll...
Exactly, If I (the user/consumer) write an extra chapter to a book, or an extra scene in a movie, that should have no effect whatsoever on the commercial/stock version of whatever I'm changing. Mods are one of the best things to happen to software. With out them we wouldn't have the ingenious people working on the things we love (CS).
In this corner: Jack Thompson and coked-out-lesbian-turned-born-again (and Prez Bush?) And in this corner: Everyone else
Ok, so: 1) Thanks for the update, I've got my "new learn of the day" 2) Rev. 12:9 - "devil and Satan...who deceives the whole world" 3) Go F your A you cowardly D
Or perhaps those little handheld devices that have exploded in popularity in the past 5 years? What are they again? Oh yeah, cell phones. Or as I see 'em, the future "Remotes for the world." If you haven't realized this then you need not worry as you're probably 80 years of age and don't care much for the immediate future as all it contains is your demise. However for the tech-savvy rest of us it's quite clear. Cell phones have already turned into cameras, personal schedules, calenders, and note takers, CHAT TEXTERS (which is a whole different story, and evil), even audio recorders. The list goes on and the technology is only getting more and more improved. Eventually this little handheld device will replace all the other little handheld devices into one nice little handheld device to control all the larger, NON-handheld devices that are inevitably going to be implimented in our homes, cars, and just about everything else with an circuit inside of it. If you don't belive me, check out Mr. Rekimoto and his little invention that's going to REPLACE YOUR FREAKIN' WALLS!
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:: Cellphones in 20 years : Shadowrun
http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/rekimoto/datatil
RFID's : Vaudeville
In regards to the barcode:
On every individually sold package in the U.S., (not each individual product, but the main container or package, etc., it came in) there is a bar code with two thin lines on the left end, two thin lines in the middle, and two thin lines on the right end, all hanging down below the majority of the bar code. As I understand it these two thin lines represent a 6 in the bar code code. Thus, a 666 is on every product, bought and sold in America. Now I'm no religious scholar, nor much of a god fearing man, but that's one hell of a coincidence.
Check it out for yourself. Again: it won't be on that bottle of coke, or bag of chips you got in the vending machine, but it will be on the box those were shipped in.
Who the hell appointed stanists when they were setting up this system?
It's best to compare the ESRB rating to the movie rating system. T for teen with notes: blood, gore, sexual suggestions, etc, is a much better system compared to PG-13, or R, without any inditcation of why short of the movie title. Green blood does make the game less violent, as it's less realistic. Granted you're still blowing away demons with shotguns. But who knows? Maybe demons do have green blood...And with the title "DOOM", I think expectations of pentagrams aren't too far fetched. Should a movie or a game have a more mature rating simply because of a pentagram or perhaps a swastica? How about a less mature rating if there's a lot of yellow smiley faces around?
But hey, what's the big difference between 5 second or 3 seconds of "thrusting" in a motion picture sex scene?