Quite a profound statement indeed, maybe its similar to that theory about how our dreams have us run through real life scenarios while we're unconscious to better prepare us for events that may happen during the day based on prior events or knowledge.
However I have to wonder if there's a certain amount of time that is needed for it to make a difference. For instance if I play a respawn game of Call of Duty 4, you have only about 10 seconds before you come back to the action. However, in Search and destroy games where you spawn only at the start of each new round, you have minutes at times before the next round. some may find it boring, but its certainly more time for reflection.
Pretty cool device, but I'm sure someone will just come up with a scope that doesn't reflect the laser light in such a way that the device can pinpoint it. Either have it refract in a different direction or absorb the light into the scope, away from the snipers eyes somehow.
City of Heroes is still just a MMORPG, there's not really much differentiation from your typical fantasy game.
When I say that what I mean is you level, you grind, you get new gear. and thats it. Sure some of these games throw in some weak PvP once in a while, but nothing groundbreaking. I guess I just don't get impressed much and get bored to quickly when actions become repetitive.
I think we need to see more development towards other settings (not counting TabulaRasa, its basically the same as Orcs and Elves and all that mess). I always though Planetside was an interesting one that certainly could be improved upon for a decent MMO FPS experience.
Also now that the creator of FASA (Battletech/Shadowrun) has his IP back, maybe we can see a decent Battletech MMO, so long as its better than that one they tried several years ago that wasn't even really an MMO because you could only play 4v4.
The only other real potential coming up is the Bioware Star Wars MMO. Lets hope someone can do it right, I'm tired of swinging swords and fighting orcs!
"My gut reaction is that they pulled that MPG number and top speed straight out of their ass."
almost without a doubt they may have exaggerated quite a bit, but the concept seems kinda solid, maybe similar to how a Turbo or SuperCharger works, only rather than increasing the acceleration, the energy goes toward fuel economy.
"I don't think rushing to implement half baked solutions is ever a good idea"
certainly true, in my eyes Hybrid vehicles are the half baked solution towards going either hydrogen and/or all electric cars because they still rely on gasoline and their CO2 cost of producing the batteries is high as well. The thing is that those half baked solutions are often created to bridge the gap to the real solution. Sometimes though, the intermediate bridge just isn't good enough.
That sounds like an "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" argument to me. Which in fine and good for simpler technologies, but can be disastrous for more modern technologies. Just think what would happen if you didn't change your car's oil until the car simply refused to run. What would happen if we all decided not to curb our oil consumption habits until we either ran completely out of oil reserves. You see its the shortsightedness that in the long run costs you WAY MORE than if you simply keep the options in mind and work towards a solution.
So in two years when they can't add any more addresses, the only ones to blame will be those who stuck they feet in the mud and wouldn't budge. Besides, they can always just start taking away all those spam sites that offer no real content and just distribute those to other who actually need them, I'm sure there's at least another 2 years worth of those.
And so the defendant will say they were "emotionally distressed" by the line "go kill urself" and will still get the payout. See the problem here is who exactly defines someone who is emotionally "normal" or an emotional "eggshell". Certainly not a court, and certainly not a jury.
You begin a conversation with someone, and all of a sudden you start talking politics. The other person completely disagrees with you and decides to completely slam you, saying you are ignorant, and that you should kill yourself.
BOOM, you have a case! You take that person to court and clean up because they say you are a worthless human being. And guess what, they'd probably right!
all things aside about the performance and stability of a computer, 4 or even 8GB of RAM to run an OS decently is a crime. Now I know you can run it with 2GB fine if you don't play many games, but even still I'm still happy with my XP Pro with 2GB of RAM and thats all I need for gaming, escpecially since there's not yet any real benefit to directX 10.
I think what the grandparent meant was that if everybody wrote bad/buggy code on purpose just to keep their jobs as fixers of the buggy code, then where would we be? Its a valid argument, though in my experience people who write bad code are usually just very bad programmers, so to say they did it on purpose would be correct except to say that they could not have possibly written better on purpose either.
certainly there are plenty of similarities between the choice of which HD movie disc is best and which president would have been a better choice in the 2004 elections. Hopefully the 2008 elections will show two candidates who are worth voting for.
You know going based solely off the name of something is a little dumb, especially if you're completely ignoring any and all facts. Granted, I thought HD-DVD was a better name because people "get" what HD means. However in the end it all just reminds me of the episode of South Park where they had to vote between a Giant Douche and a Turd Sandwich. And unfortunately thats what a lot choices are really about, when you have to choose between two things that really have no great effect on your life because each choice is the right choice and the wrong choice at the same time.
I think you're failing to see the point the grandparent made about the fact that for most people its utterly unneccesary for a practical standpoint. I'd rather someone know about another peoples' culture than only being able to speak the culture's language, essentially being a complete tourist. Combine this with the fact that the best way to learn a new language is to actually use it somewhat regularly and be around other people who use it, otherwise you're going to get nowhere fast unless you have lots of time (not to mention money) to travel to those other countries to get a chance to use the newly procured language skills.
I myself am a programmer, so I can kindof relate to this. I have learned useful languages like C, Java, Python, PHP, SQL, HTML, but know why I haven't learned.NET, Ruby, Perl? Because I simply do not need it at this point (among other reasons), and I believe i will live just as full a life without learning it.
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only problem is the price of screwing up, I mean didn't you see Deep Impact?
unfortunately I did, for the love of god DO NOT WATCH THAT MOVIE! IT BURNSSSSSSS!
So would that make Republicans the tumor or the syph?
come now, must we really have pointless bickering about political opinions?
At least you won't be surprised when the contract you sign to use the phone bends you over and make you call them daddy.
You mean like those blue-tooth headsets people insist on wearing all the time even when they're not talking on them? Ugggggh
Quite a profound statement indeed, maybe its similar to that theory about how our dreams have us run through real life scenarios while we're unconscious to better prepare us for events that may happen during the day based on prior events or knowledge.
However I have to wonder if there's a certain amount of time that is needed for it to make a difference. For instance if I play a respawn game of Call of Duty 4, you have only about 10 seconds before you come back to the action. However, in Search and destroy games where you spawn only at the start of each new round, you have minutes at times before the next round. some may find it boring, but its certainly more time for reflection.
Pretty cool device, but I'm sure someone will just come up with a scope that doesn't reflect the laser light in such a way that the device can pinpoint it. Either have it refract in a different direction or absorb the light into the scope, away from the snipers eyes somehow.
City of Heroes is still just a MMORPG, there's not really much differentiation from your typical fantasy game.
When I say that what I mean is you level, you grind, you get new gear. and thats it. Sure some of these games throw in some weak PvP once in a while, but nothing groundbreaking. I guess I just don't get impressed much and get bored to quickly when actions become repetitive.
I think we need to see more development towards other settings (not counting TabulaRasa, its basically the same as Orcs and Elves and all that mess). I always though Planetside was an interesting one that certainly could be improved upon for a decent MMO FPS experience.
Also now that the creator of FASA (Battletech/Shadowrun) has his IP back, maybe we can see a decent Battletech MMO, so long as its better than that one they tried several years ago that wasn't even really an MMO because you could only play 4v4.
The only other real potential coming up is the Bioware Star Wars MMO. Lets hope someone can do it right, I'm tired of swinging swords and fighting orcs!
"My gut reaction is that they pulled that MPG number and top speed straight out of their ass."
almost without a doubt they may have exaggerated quite a bit, but the concept seems kinda solid, maybe similar to how a Turbo or SuperCharger works, only rather than increasing the acceleration, the energy goes toward fuel economy.
"I don't think rushing to implement half baked solutions is ever a good idea"
certainly true, in my eyes Hybrid vehicles are the half baked solution towards going either hydrogen and/or all electric cars because they still rely on gasoline and their CO2 cost of producing the batteries is high as well. The thing is that those half baked solutions are often created to bridge the gap to the real solution. Sometimes though, the intermediate bridge just isn't good enough.
sounds like a lame joke that Seinfeld would make
I don't think he's your mom.
That sounds like an "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" argument to me. Which in fine and good for simpler technologies, but can be disastrous for more modern technologies. Just think what would happen if you didn't change your car's oil until the car simply refused to run. What would happen if we all decided not to curb our oil consumption habits until we either ran completely out of oil reserves. You see its the shortsightedness that in the long run costs you WAY MORE than if you simply keep the options in mind and work towards a solution.
So in two years when they can't add any more addresses, the only ones to blame will be those who stuck they feet in the mud and wouldn't budge. Besides, they can always just start taking away all those spam sites that offer no real content and just distribute those to other who actually need them, I'm sure there's at least another 2 years worth of those.
And so the defendant will say they were "emotionally distressed" by the line "go kill urself" and will still get the payout. See the problem here is who exactly defines someone who is emotionally "normal" or an emotional "eggshell". Certainly not a court, and certainly not a jury.
Only if the paper self destructs after reading the message
Just think of this scenario:
You begin a conversation with someone, and all of a sudden you start talking politics. The other person completely disagrees with you and decides to completely slam you, saying you are ignorant, and that you should kill yourself.
BOOM, you have a case! You take that person to court and clean up because they say you are a worthless human being. And guess what, they'd probably right!
"8gb of RAM"
all things aside about the performance and stability of a computer, 4 or even 8GB of RAM to run an OS decently is a crime. Now I know you can run it with 2GB fine if you don't play many games, but even still I'm still happy with my XP Pro with 2GB of RAM and thats all I need for gaming, escpecially since there's not yet any real benefit to directX 10.
maybe I should have went with "WE LOVE THE MOON CAUSE IT IS GOOD TO USSS!"
only then I'd have to be waterboarded for making people remember that dreadful noise of a song
Yes, there are that many Windows machines on the internet.
THATS NO MOOOOONNNNNNNN!
i think thats 40% towards creating electricity, this is 15% towards creating pure Hydrogen
I think what the grandparent meant was that if everybody wrote bad/buggy code on purpose just to keep their jobs as fixers of the buggy code, then where would we be? Its a valid argument, though in my experience people who write bad code are usually just very bad programmers, so to say they did it on purpose would be correct except to say that they could not have possibly written better on purpose either.
certainly there are plenty of similarities between the choice of which HD movie disc is best and which president would have been a better choice in the 2004 elections. Hopefully the 2008 elections will show two candidates who are worth voting for.
You know going based solely off the name of something is a little dumb, especially if you're completely ignoring any and all facts. Granted, I thought HD-DVD was a better name because people "get" what HD means. However in the end it all just reminds me of the episode of South Park where they had to vote between a Giant Douche and a Turd Sandwich. And unfortunately thats what a lot choices are really about, when you have to choose between two things that really have no great effect on your life because each choice is the right choice and the wrong choice at the same time.
I think you're failing to see the point the grandparent made about the fact that for most people its utterly unneccesary for a practical standpoint. I'd rather someone know about another peoples' culture than only being able to speak the culture's language, essentially being a complete tourist. Combine this with the fact that the best way to learn a new language is to actually use it somewhat regularly and be around other people who use it, otherwise you're going to get nowhere fast unless you have lots of time (not to mention money) to travel to those other countries to get a chance to use the newly procured language skills.
.NET, Ruby, Perl? Because I simply do not need it at this point (among other reasons), and I believe i will live just as full a life without learning it.
I myself am a programmer, so I can kindof relate to this. I have learned useful languages like C, Java, Python, PHP, SQL, HTML, but know why I haven't learned