Each profile gives some statistics about this, so I grabbed the numbers off my profile: # Total number of creatures uploaded: 1906743
# Total Users Total number of users: 675241
# Creatures Uploaded in last 24 hours Creatures uploaded in last 24 hours: 30567
# New Users in the Last 24 Hours New users in last 24 hours: 7853
1906743 / 675241 = ~3 creatures per person. I've uploaded 130 myself, but there are a lot of of 1-time-only-creature creators too. As far as I've seen, very few users are over more than 200 and even 100 only somewhat common.
Very few, especially as EA moderates those sorts of creatures now. They ask you to not upload such creatures and if you continue, your banned. Sure you can a new account and the bans aren't perminent, but the vast majority of creatures don't need moderation anyways. There are so many wonderful creatures, its a shame the penis creatures made so much noise. I've contributed ~130 creatures myself.
I built mine around August for about $1300. A GeForce 8800 GTX, an Intel Core 2 Quad, and 2 gigs of dual channel DDR2 1066 RAM ranked among the fancier pieces. I had assumed Spore would require a beefy CPU to run, as I also foresaw a general move in gaming towards focus on multicore machines. Oyi, did I ever guess wrong!
I mean sure, Oblivion flies, I'm all set for future Source-based games, and Crysis runs like a dream but at what cost? AT WHAT COST!?! Oh right, $1300. At any rate, it certainly seems I was wrong in my prediction of what direction things are going; more and more I see games come out with surprisingly low recommended specs. Sure Valve's Source engine, Crytek's CryEngine 2, and (soon too) ID Tech 5, all support multicore CPUs, but I'm not seeing the games really making them essential.
I suppose they rely a bit too much on previous released information. It seems Voice commands figure heavily into their statement. Personally, I see the controls as being one of the biggest barriers to the RTS genre on consoles. While I find this is an interesting direction, even if it does solve a lot of control issues, they are still only one of many barriers. Then again, maybe I'm just to big of a PC fan to see a revolution...
Except windows can create odd, non-uniform lighting situations in rooms with irregular geoemetries or furnature which my obscure the window from potions of the room. This setup is more like a skylight coming from the wall.
I think you still are missing my point. It is my assertion that his participation is NOT unfair to the other athlete. I can't seem to figure out where you get this nonsense about me believing that the olympics are some feel good, everyone wins event. My think that there is an unfounded belief that his participation is somehow a detriment to the games, and I think it is in the attempts to justify these beliefs are the real spirit is lost. That a sprinter with no real proven advantage over other athletes is not allowed to compete, stops it from being a friendly competition and marks its departure into something else entirely. My point of view holds nothing to justify allowing jets or skateboards, it is about preventing legitamite atheletes from participating and how it runs contrary to the spirit of the games.
First, there is a cycling category in racing games so I would find bicycling in the 400-meter little more than a hilarious scheduling error.
Second, chemical doping of atheletes once was an accepted practice (The 1904 games marathon winner,Thomas Hicks, was using strychnine.) It was banned not because it gave an unfair advantage, but instead because it put the athelete's health at risk.
Finally, I still fail to see any real proof that Mr. Pistorius' entry into the 400-meter would be unfair. The closest I have seen to a video like the one you describe, in which he starts slow and picks up at the end, would be this one. And even in this one, the race was not even long enough for this unproven advantage to make a winning difference. My point about friendly competition was an argument against the original ruling, which I still regard as little more than a poorly founded bias against the sprinter. That is to say it is not a friendly competition that rules against a participant on this shaky basis; as this successful appeal apparently concurs.
It seems to me the spirit of the Olympic games is to invite friendly competition between nations, not to foster a giant "my country is better than yours" competition. To me, that means that it need not be so strictly regulated. I think the practice of including any able-bodied athelete, as defined as being as capable as any other athelete of their field, is more true to real spirit of inclusion than that if banning any athelete who might have an advantage over, or disadvantage against, any other opponent. In short, I see it as South Africa's right to choose whom they wish to include in their team. If that includes men and women with superior (or inferior, as I remind you he still has not met the qualifying time for the 400-meter) abilities, either due to nature or technology, then so be it.
Forget trying to hide it, instead you should take refuge in audacious behavior. Download it 80 times in a row, without taking any precautions to hide the fact that your are downloading it. People will be overwhelmed by the weirdness and think to themselves:
"No one in their right mind would act that way if all they wanted was to do is download and use this service! Clearly this user's actions are for some other purpose; Yes, if fact he must be trying to deny legitimate users by taking up the bandwidth himself! How noble of him!"
Little do they realize, however, things are quite the contrary...
Admin: He's getting away with our IBM iDataPlex! Quick, to the IBMobile! Intern: Um, I'm sorry but the marketing department borrowed the golf cart for their golf outing today. Admin: Well, then come on; it can't be moving more than 5mph anyways...
Well, in the mean time we can try to find the original news article. Its from the Chinese-language Economic Daily News. Here's the Chinese original (thanks Kotaku's Dutch!) and the Google translation
In demoing the Sporepedia, a card-like encyclopedia of user generated content, the creators have stated that creatures/veichles/buildings automatically added are based on a sort of dynamic filter created out of your own choices in creation/selection. So, if you do not want to see such things then you simply need not create/select them and they will end up at the bottom of the selection choices as more favorable selections are pushed up.
What we need is a genetically engineered plant! One that matures and spreads quickly. One that absorbs an inordinately large amount of C02 and perhaps stores it within itself like some sort of fat breath! It would need to have a relativly odd sort of reproduction; one that would require human intervention (like a bee and its flower, but without a self-pollination method or an asexual reproduction method.) Requiring human intervention would help prevent uncontrolled spread, but like everything else written above would be a complex and difficult development process decades in the making.
...maybe we should invest in those C02 scrubber towers instead. What if we could string them between city buildings or up the sides of skyscrapers? Like through an artificial canyon, winds would drawn the carbon through the scrubbers.
The article appears a bit vague, but it appears they are not talking about running ethanol through the pipelines, but gasoline. Infact, talking about converting Biomass into gasoline, not ethanol. Atleast that's the idea I got from the quote:
Huber and his colleagues aren't the first to derive hydrocarbons from renewable sources. Virent Energy Systems, for example, just signed a deal with Shell to produce gasoline from plant sugars and expects to open a pilot facility in the next two years. UOP is working on a project to produce jet fuel for U.S. and NATO fighters from algal and vegetable oils. But Huber's work stands out as likely the first direct conversion from cellulose, opening up as potential fuel sources virtually anything that grows. Commercialization of the technology may take another five to 10 years, the researchers predict. ... Developments in so-called "green hydrocarbons" arrive as ethanol continues to come under attack as expensive, inefficient and a contributor to rising food prices around the world. (More than a billion bushels of corn are diverted to ethanol production each year.) "There's certainly a lot of historical inertia for ethanol. It's gotten us off to a great start, but I can't see the country transitioning to flex-fuel," says John Regalbuto, director of the Catalysis and Biocatalysis Program at the National Science Foundation. "I almost think, long term, that we will go to plug-in hybrids. But we're still going to need diesel and jet fuel--you can't run trains or fly planes with ethanol or hydrogen." But, then again in describing the process it goes back to vague (emphasis mine:)
Using a catalyst commonly employed in the petroleum industry, Huber and his colleagues heated small amounts of cellulose very quickly for a matter of seconds before cooling it, producing a high-octane liquid similar to gasoline. The article seems to be trying to distance this technology from ethanol, stating that ethanol has its problems and that it's not going to be the right direction
The last we heard of the.su domain here on slashdot was when we were discussing Outdated Domains to meet their end. Like.um from that article,.su was high on the list for the chopping block. *Sniff* that article was one of my first submissions to be accepted on Slashdot...*tear*
Erm? *Ahem!*.um... In.su, ISP is throttled by you!
Wait, I'm confused. What's wrong with the symbol legend one (music note = 4, rad sign = 7, snowman = 4) It seems like a work of genius, compared to the horrible, mutant letter/number Captcha's I've seen. I wish all of them were a generated set of symbols matching to a randomized numbers or letters! Is there something that makes that easier to break than others? Why is that one, one of the worst?
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, wait! Here it is...
I wish I could find it now, but someone did create a creature that looked just like a man sitting at a desk with a computer monitor on it...
Yes, I completly failed with that link. Furthermore, I forgot that only people with an account are able to view profiles anyway. Ah well.
Each profile gives some statistics about this, so I grabbed the numbers off my profile:
# Total number of creatures uploaded: 1906743
# Total Users Total number of users: 675241
# Creatures Uploaded in last 24 hours Creatures uploaded in last 24 hours: 30567
# New Users in the Last 24 Hours New users in last 24 hours: 7853
1906743 / 675241 = ~3 creatures per person. I've uploaded 130 myself, but there are a lot of of 1-time-only-creature creators too. As far as I've seen, very few users are over more than 200 and even 100 only somewhat common.
Very few, especially as EA moderates those sorts of creatures now. They ask you to not upload such creatures and if you continue, your banned. Sure you can a new account and the bans aren't perminent, but the vast majority of creatures don't need moderation anyways. There are so many wonderful creatures, its a shame the penis creatures made so much noise. I've contributed ~130 creatures myself.
I built mine around August for about $1300. A GeForce 8800 GTX, an Intel Core 2 Quad, and 2 gigs of dual channel DDR2 1066 RAM ranked among the fancier pieces. I had assumed Spore would require a beefy CPU to run, as I also foresaw a general move in gaming towards focus on multicore machines. Oyi, did I ever guess wrong!
I mean sure, Oblivion flies, I'm all set for future Source-based games, and Crysis runs like a dream but at what cost? AT WHAT COST!?! Oh right, $1300. At any rate, it certainly seems I was wrong in my prediction of what direction things are going; more and more I see games come out with surprisingly low recommended specs. Sure Valve's Source engine, Crytek's CryEngine 2, and (soon too) ID Tech 5, all support multicore CPUs, but I'm not seeing the games really making them essential.
I suppose they rely a bit too much on previous released information. It seems Voice commands figure heavily into their statement. Personally, I see the controls as being one of the biggest barriers to the RTS genre on consoles. While I find this is an interesting direction, even if it does solve a lot of control issues, they are still only one of many barriers. Then again, maybe I'm just to big of a PC fan to see a revolution...
Except windows can create odd, non-uniform lighting situations in rooms with irregular geoemetries or furnature which my obscure the window from potions of the room. This setup is more like a skylight coming from the wall.
No fair, Nature has a billion+ years head start!
I demand a rematch! Make Nature starover! No wait, better not. Nature can have its headstart, but we need the goal to be fair for both sides...
First one to the moon wins!
I think you still are missing my point. It is my assertion that his participation is NOT unfair to the other athlete. I can't seem to figure out where you get this nonsense about me believing that the olympics are some feel good, everyone wins event. My think that there is an unfounded belief that his participation is somehow a detriment to the games, and I think it is in the attempts to justify these beliefs are the real spirit is lost. That a sprinter with no real proven advantage over other athletes is not allowed to compete, stops it from being a friendly competition and marks its departure into something else entirely. My point of view holds nothing to justify allowing jets or skateboards, it is about preventing legitamite atheletes from participating and how it runs contrary to the spirit of the games.
First, there is a cycling category in racing games so I would find bicycling in the 400-meter little more than a hilarious scheduling error.
Second, chemical doping of atheletes once was an accepted practice (The 1904 games marathon winner,Thomas Hicks, was using strychnine.) It was banned not because it gave an unfair advantage, but instead because it put the athelete's health at risk.
Finally, I still fail to see any real proof that Mr. Pistorius' entry into the 400-meter would be unfair. The closest I have seen to a video like the one you describe, in which he starts slow and picks up at the end, would be this one. And even in this one, the race was not even long enough for this unproven advantage to make a winning difference. My point about friendly competition was an argument against the original ruling, which I still regard as little more than a poorly founded bias against the sprinter. That is to say it is not a friendly competition that rules against a participant on this shaky basis; as this successful appeal apparently concurs.
It seems to me the spirit of the Olympic games is to invite friendly competition between nations, not to foster a giant "my country is better than yours" competition. To me, that means that it need not be so strictly regulated. I think the practice of including any able-bodied athelete, as defined as being as capable as any other athelete of their field, is more true to real spirit of inclusion than that if banning any athelete who might have an advantage over, or disadvantage against, any other opponent. In short, I see it as South Africa's right to choose whom they wish to include in their team. If that includes men and women with superior (or inferior, as I remind you he still has not met the qualifying time for the 400-meter) abilities, either due to nature or technology, then so be it.
No, he must improve by that much. His time is 46.56 seconds. He needs 45.55 seconds to qualify for the 400-meter
Forget trying to hide it, instead you should take refuge in audacious behavior. Download it 80 times in a row, without taking any precautions to hide the fact that your are downloading it. People will be overwhelmed by the weirdness and think to themselves:
"No one in their right mind would act that way if all they wanted was to do is download and use this service! Clearly this user's actions are for some other purpose; Yes, if fact he must be trying to deny legitimate users by taking up the bandwidth himself! How noble of him!"
Little do they realize, however, things are quite the contrary...
I can see the conversation now...
Admin: He's getting away with our IBM iDataPlex! Quick, to the IBMobile!
Intern: Um, I'm sorry but the marketing department borrowed the golf cart for their golf outing today.
Admin: Well, then come on; it can't be moving more than 5mph anyways...
Well, in the mean time we can try to find the original news article. Its from the Chinese-language Economic Daily News. Here's the Chinese original (thanks Kotaku's Dutch!) and the Google translation
One of the best ones I've heard yet! Thank you.
In demoing the Sporepedia, a card-like encyclopedia of user generated content, the creators have stated that creatures/veichles/buildings automatically added are based on a sort of dynamic filter created out of your own choices in creation/selection. So, if you do not want to see such things then you simply need not create/select them and they will end up at the bottom of the selection choices as more favorable selections are pushed up.
I missed the two-player, one laptop requirement from the question.
The Orange Box (HL2 series, Portal, Team Fortress 2) should also be a good choice (Portal Especially.)
Yes... plans...
What we need is a genetically engineered plant! One that matures and spreads quickly. One that absorbs an inordinately large amount of C02 and perhaps stores it within itself like some sort of fat breath! It would need to have a relativly odd sort of reproduction; one that would require human intervention (like a bee and its flower, but without a self-pollination method or an asexual reproduction method.) Requiring human intervention would help prevent uncontrolled spread, but like everything else written above would be a complex and difficult development process decades in the making.
...maybe we should invest in those C02 scrubber towers instead. What if we could string them between city buildings or up the sides of skyscrapers? Like through an artificial canyon, winds would drawn the carbon through the scrubbers.
Developments in so-called "green hydrocarbons" arrive as ethanol continues to come under attack as expensive, inefficient and a contributor to rising food prices around the world. (More than a billion bushels of corn are diverted to ethanol production each year.) "There's certainly a lot of historical inertia for ethanol. It's gotten us off to a great start, but I can't see the country transitioning to flex-fuel," says John Regalbuto, director of the Catalysis and Biocatalysis Program at the National Science Foundation. "I almost think, long term, that we will go to plug-in hybrids. But we're still going to need diesel and jet fuel--you can't run trains or fly planes with ethanol or hydrogen." But, then again in describing the process it goes back to vague (emphasis mine:) Using a catalyst commonly employed in the petroleum industry, Huber and his colleagues heated small amounts of cellulose very quickly for a matter of seconds before cooling it, producing a high-octane liquid similar to gasoline. The article seems to be trying to distance this technology from ethanol, stating that ethanol has its problems and that it's not going to be the right direction
The last we heard of the .su domain here on slashdot was when we were discussing Outdated Domains to meet their end. Like .um from that article, .su was high on the list for the chopping block. *Sniff* that article was one of my first submissions to be accepted on Slashdot...*tear*
.um... .su, ISP is throttled by you!
Erm? *Ahem!*
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Wait, I'm confused. What's wrong with the symbol legend one (music note = 4, rad sign = 7, snowman = 4) It seems like a work of genius, compared to the horrible, mutant letter/number Captcha's I've seen. I wish all of them were a generated set of symbols matching to a randomized numbers or letters! Is there something that makes that easier to break than others? Why is that one, one of the worst?
Super-soakers Online! Cloth and liquid simulations determine who got wet, how wet, and whether or not that means they're out!