Your friend would be right. The only thing they added to the engine for ship to ship combat is vector shields and power settings, but it's still Champions in Space.
If WoW is getting boring, this will not hold you for more than a month unless you really love Star Trek and must buy this game in collectors edition (twice, so you have one to play and he other to display.)
I can't force myself to log into the game anymore. For one, it gets to be extremely tedious being confined to a small square box until you warp which zones you (with load screen) to a "warp zone" where you fly around and choose what zone you want to "drop out of warp" into. Add that to the extremely lackluster combat of flying circles around the enemy and occasionally turning around to distribute damage to the other shields and you have a really, really lackluster game.
Basically, it's the Champions Online game with ships instead of super heroes. Same engine, same zone structure (with instancing), and the same quest log/quest types. The only thing I can think of right now that they added is a "ship" inventory so you can upgrade shields, phasers, and such with items you will find during battles or apparently "research" by taking rare ores found in sectors to an NPC to process.
Also, Klingons are pretty much 99% PvP based so if you wanted to run a freighter or some other non-combat scenario for The Empire, you'll find yourself without. Land/ship based combat is your typical target and select 1, 2, or 3 to select your weapon/attack. But wow, you can decide if you are in attack mode or speed mode. Woo!
You still get into the argument on whether someone else would have created it instead. You could be facing a vacuum scenario. If you eliminate a developer from a time line where there's a position, someone else could be there to fill it... and it might turn out for the worse for you or the fans.
"High-end laptop... with a price tag of just over $1,000."
Maybe I'm just still used to Laptops being well over $1000. The last one I bought was a Lenovo T61 with an Intel graphics card and it was over $1K. I wouldn't consider it "high-end."
Even I could argue that. He takes an example ( http://jqueryvsmootools.com/#chaining ) from the tutorials explicitly on the use of end() and pretty much declares it a required form then shows a method to do the same thing in MooTools in a cleaner way (which can also be done in jQuery...):
It doesn't? He equates temperature (which I'm assuming he means the activity of an atomic structure) to the speed (or was it acceleration) at which it is traveling. I'm no expert by any means, but I thought the string theory tries to explain that "activity" within a structure that would give it motion and temperature.
I could be wrong because I've only touched on the topics at hand, but I can see a possible correlation. He could have based this idea off of the string theory and it's underpinnings, which could give further evidence to the theory.
That's what I told the Dentist when I got my wisdom teeth removed. "If you don't put me under, I will by myself." He decided that a controlled manner would be best.
Video game gore doesn't bother me. I normally turn it on or enable it if it's off. I can't watch ER type shows, but I loved watching House in which cases I would just look away if the scene was too long. It usually takes me a while to get to the point of blacking out. For instance, the blood drive I was fine for a about a half hour and when they put the blood packet in the plastic container I was carrying I could feel the warmth (and for some reason I remember a distinct smell) and that was enough to trigger it. The speech I blacked out in was fairly descriptive and at about the 10 minute mark I was done.
I have gone hunting, etc. and animal blood has no real effect on me. It just seems to be places where I can put myself in place of the person or imagine the event happening to me... that's when I lose it. It has to be "real enough" to trigger a response. I'm sorry I can't be more descriptive than that. I just know when I feel light headed and try to put my mind on something else.
It's safer unless you are me and imagine all kinds of strange things going on... and manage to pass yourself out.
I have a very low tolerance for blood, stories about it, and other detailed info on accidents, etc. I blacked out in a college speech class a few years back because someone explained his motorcycle accident. I once volunteered for a blood drive and couldn't even carry the blood pouch back to the receiving table without having to sit down in the middle of the room and handing it off to someone else.
It's making me light headed right now just typing that out.
That's the first thing I thought too, but there are a majority of people that buy a router off the shelf, plug it in and just start using it. (...I'm pointing at you Mom and Dad...) I've secured it in the past, they forgot their password so my Mom went and bought another one. Granted, they live 3 miles from the closest single traffic light town and anyone willing to drive up the driveway to get in range is willing to get a warning shot... but that's not the point.
Wifi is a convenience, and having to secure it, remember yet another password or key, and having to plug it in every time you reformat your Windows machine is a nuisance. Most people don't even use all their broadband and would probably only complain if they started noticing a slowdown anyway.
Also, the story only graphs out the first 10 countries, but they point out the US numbers... searching for hits?
Spending money on themselves requires that someone provide the service or good they are spending money on... they get the luxury of a new jet and the ability to make more money to buy that yacht and the jet and yacht manufacturers can hire more people to make said goods.
Explain to me where one option is better than the other. On one hand you are directly creating jobs by spending money. On the other, you are dumping cash into a business that may fail and supporting the notion that with enough politics you too can get a venture capitalist to waste money on a product that people may not want to buy.
Are they really providing more? When they buy jets, cruises, and all that someone has to build and provide those services. When they invest, they are looking to get a return on their money so they will look for the cheapest labor to do the task, hound their investment to get the best return and generally screw the consumer as long as the money keeps rolling in.
If they were to spend that money on a new jet every few years, now you have thousands upon thousands of jobs wherein people create goods and are paid for their time and skill.
It's actually HARDER to load the iPhone since you have to do it through iTunes. With the Android devices you simply plug in the USB cable and hit the "USB Connected" then "Mount" button in the notification panel and it acts just like a thumb drive.
If we get rid of "firsts", patents would be pointless, recognition would be negligible, and China would probably take over the world... or whoever has the cheapest labor. That would start a spiral that we probably don't want to be a part of. "Firsts" inspire people to compete, giving us all better things.
(This is, of course, my armchair economics with no real backing...)
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Your friend would be right. The only thing they added to the engine for ship to ship combat is vector shields and power settings, but it's still Champions in Space.
If WoW is getting boring, this will not hold you for more than a month unless you really love Star Trek and must buy this game in collectors edition (twice, so you have one to play and he other to display.)
I can't force myself to log into the game anymore. For one, it gets to be extremely tedious being confined to a small square box until you warp which zones you (with load screen) to a "warp zone" where you fly around and choose what zone you want to "drop out of warp" into. Add that to the extremely lackluster combat of flying circles around the enemy and occasionally turning around to distribute damage to the other shields and you have a really, really lackluster game.
Basically, it's the Champions Online game with ships instead of super heroes. Same engine, same zone structure (with instancing), and the same quest log/quest types. The only thing I can think of right now that they added is a "ship" inventory so you can upgrade shields, phasers, and such with items you will find during battles or apparently "research" by taking rare ores found in sectors to an NPC to process.
Also, Klingons are pretty much 99% PvP based so if you wanted to run a freighter or some other non-combat scenario for The Empire, you'll find yourself without. Land/ship based combat is your typical target and select 1, 2, or 3 to select your weapon/attack. But wow, you can decide if you are in attack mode or speed mode. Woo!
You still get into the argument on whether someone else would have created it instead. You could be facing a vacuum scenario. If you eliminate a developer from a time line where there's a position, someone else could be there to fill it... and it might turn out for the worse for you or the fans.
I can't be the only one that laughed when I read:
"High-end laptop ... with a price tag of just over $1,000."
Maybe I'm just still used to Laptops being well over $1000. The last one I bought was a Lenovo T61 with an Intel graphics card and it was over $1K. I wouldn't consider it "high-end."
Even I could argue that. He takes an example ( http://jqueryvsmootools.com/#chaining ) from the tutorials explicitly on the use of end() and pretty much declares it a required form then shows a method to do the same thing in MooTools in a cleaner way (which can also be done in jQuery...):
$(document).ready(function() {
var faq = $('#faq');
faq.find('dd').hide();
faq.find('dt').click(function() {
$(this).next().slideToggle();
});
});
There's obvious bias in that "comparison."
Instead of:
$(".someClass").each(
function(index, element){
somestuff();
}
);
Do:
function doThings(index, element){
somestuff();
}
$(".someClass").each(doThings);
It doesn't? He equates temperature (which I'm assuming he means the activity of an atomic structure) to the speed (or was it acceleration) at which it is traveling. I'm no expert by any means, but I thought the string theory tries to explain that "activity" within a structure that would give it motion and temperature.
I could be wrong because I've only touched on the topics at hand, but I can see a possible correlation. He could have based this idea off of the string theory and it's underpinnings, which could give further evidence to the theory.
That's what I told the Dentist when I got my wisdom teeth removed. "If you don't put me under, I will by myself." He decided that a controlled manner would be best.
I'm a geek. I am(/used to be) as pale as a ghost! That's why I bought a convertible: to get more sun driving home and to work. ;)
Video game gore doesn't bother me. I normally turn it on or enable it if it's off. I can't watch ER type shows, but I loved watching House in which cases I would just look away if the scene was too long. It usually takes me a while to get to the point of blacking out. For instance, the blood drive I was fine for a about a half hour and when they put the blood packet in the plastic container I was carrying I could feel the warmth (and for some reason I remember a distinct smell) and that was enough to trigger it. The speech I blacked out in was fairly descriptive and at about the 10 minute mark I was done.
I have gone hunting, etc. and animal blood has no real effect on me. It just seems to be places where I can put myself in place of the person or imagine the event happening to me... that's when I lose it. It has to be "real enough" to trigger a response. I'm sorry I can't be more descriptive than that. I just know when I feel light headed and try to put my mind on something else.
...depending on the license that has been purchased.
Does this mean I can implement the same DRM without the license restriction and it's not covered by the patent?
It's safer unless you are me and imagine all kinds of strange things going on... and manage to pass yourself out.
I have a very low tolerance for blood, stories about it, and other detailed info on accidents, etc. I blacked out in a college speech class a few years back because someone explained his motorcycle accident. I once volunteered for a blood drive and couldn't even carry the blood pouch back to the receiving table without having to sit down in the middle of the room and handing it off to someone else.
It's making me light headed right now just typing that out.
I don't know of many ISPs running around with WiFi sniffers looking for their clients to be sharing.
I wonder how many of those APs were from "Free Hotspot" businesses like McDs, local coffee shops, book shops, etc.
A lot of the old off the shelf Linksys routers shipped without even WEP enabled.
That's the first thing I thought too, but there are a majority of people that buy a router off the shelf, plug it in and just start using it. (...I'm pointing at you Mom and Dad...) I've secured it in the past, they forgot their password so my Mom went and bought another one. Granted, they live 3 miles from the closest single traffic light town and anyone willing to drive up the driveway to get in range is willing to get a warning shot... but that's not the point.
Wifi is a convenience, and having to secure it, remember yet another password or key, and having to plug it in every time you reformat your Windows machine is a nuisance. Most people don't even use all their broadband and would probably only complain if they started noticing a slowdown anyway.
Also, the story only graphs out the first 10 countries, but they point out the US numbers... searching for hits?
Spending money on themselves requires that someone provide the service or good they are spending money on... they get the luxury of a new jet and the ability to make more money to buy that yacht and the jet and yacht manufacturers can hire more people to make said goods.
Explain to me where one option is better than the other. On one hand you are directly creating jobs by spending money. On the other, you are dumping cash into a business that may fail and supporting the notion that with enough politics you too can get a venture capitalist to waste money on a product that people may not want to buy.
Are they really providing more? When they buy jets, cruises, and all that someone has to build and provide those services. When they invest, they are looking to get a return on their money so they will look for the cheapest labor to do the task, hound their investment to get the best return and generally screw the consumer as long as the money keeps rolling in.
If they were to spend that money on a new jet every few years, now you have thousands upon thousands of jobs wherein people create goods and are paid for their time and skill.
She has a daughter and a husband as well? :p
DirectVG...
- We know that the universe started expanding from a single point.
Know is such a strong word...
I was thinking more about plaid.
Maybe too smart? ;)
It's actually HARDER to load the iPhone since you have to do it through iTunes. With the Android devices you simply plug in the USB cable and hit the "USB Connected" then "Mount" button in the notification panel and it acts just like a thumb drive.
If we get rid of "firsts", patents would be pointless, recognition would be negligible, and China would probably take over the world... or whoever has the cheapest labor. That would start a spiral that we probably don't want to be a part of. "Firsts" inspire people to compete, giving us all better things.
(This is, of course, my armchair economics with no real backing...)