Well, like any MMO, the more time you put into it, the more rewarding the experience... eventually. The problem is that the kickoff time to do anything substantive is much greater than a single player game. Take Darkstar One for example: I can easily load up my last save game (5 seconds, max) and run a few smuggling missions from one planet to another, then save the game and be back to work within an hour. With EVE Online, an equivalent activity would take a few hours at minimum. Every MMO you play is geared to be a time sink, bar non.
Or it has had a very real and very positive effect on PC gaming... People are being more selective in making purchases because now they know what a quality game is really like. They won't be apt to go out and spend $50 on a crappy title, so they will wait until a blockbuster comes out to purchase it. Until game developers realize this however, gamers are boned.
Yeah because doves are apt to fly directly into an airplane on purpose... It's not like birds TRY to get in the way of aircraft. And besides, at the end of the runway (which I have no idea how you would even get to in the first place in a truck) the airplane would be at least a hundred feet in the air. By the time a dove got to that altitude, the plane would be long gone.
The human mind, ever adaptable, will always defeat stupid pigeon holed "attack plans" like this, the same way we've defended against every other stupid assault in history.
I work for Northrop, and I've seen the white paper on the technology. It's not exactly a "bubble" but it has a certain radius of effectiveness, simulating the bubble effect. The system is actually currently being used in American tanks right now, and it's simply amazing. The system tracks the projectile, determines cross wind speeds, and then calculates whether or not the projectile is going to hit. If it is going to hit, the laser system activates, zapping the projectile multiple times per second until it detonates.
I've seen the tank system in action, and let me tell you, it's an impressive sight. Not only does it work effectively, it works almost instantly after the projectile enters the bubble. We think of the whole process step by step, but realistically, the initial target acquisition, calculation and tracking only take milliseconds to complete. The longest part at about half a second is the actual destruction of the projectile. And yes, the demo/test that I watched was a man firing an RPG.
He's going to nail it when it's 1000 yards away, 150' in the air, loaded to the gills with fuel, engines on HOT, and the pilot has no altitude to cope with the consequences.
What you're failing to realize here is that the laser system doesn't need to be effective until a projectile crosses into the bubble. And then if the projectile is going to miss anyway, it does nothing. (It's accurate down to centimeters) The plane, pilot, passengers, altitude, and anything else about the plane itself is completely irrelevant.
This laser system going to detect, track, power up, and fire early enough to kill the warhead in that case? (Not to mention to track and compensate for, I dunno, that landing JAL 747 full of 300 Mall of America shoppers that's about to cross the beam during firing????) Um, no.
Um, yes? "Detect, track, power up, and fire early enough to kill the warhead" has to be a few of the requirements of the contract, and they will be met first of all. Second of all, it already works... And compensating for other aircraft is irrelevant- again, the laser system does nothing until the projectile crosses into the bubble detection radius of the aircraft. And if other aircraft are close enough to that plane to worry about getting zapped by their missile defense system, then they have much bigger problems to worry about.
I work for the government as a contractor, and we were recently required to implement new password requirements to our users. The requirements imposed are rather ludicrous...
We have to use 2 uppercase, 2 lowercase, 2 numbers, 2 special characters, and it has to be 11 characters long. Oh and we change it every 60 days. Yeah... Sadly, no government official thinks what the parent said is true. To them more restrictions == security.
With what?! You could see this happening with your girlfriend and her Mom?
You could see this happening with the war in Iraq? I mean what the f... Oh no... they got him! Someone stabbed him with a stake through the heart!!! Oh Trevor... I pine for you.
Ohhh ok. Yeah, I remember the good 'ol days when we would have day long matches of NS. I'd leave and come back later and they'd still be playing the same map with a lot of the same players.
FYI - Starcraft: Ghost has been cancelled. That's the official word from Blizzard anyhow. I seriously doubt it will stay canceled forever though, because they have developed quite a bit of a world for it. My feeling is that once The Burning Crusader expansion comes out for WoW, Blizzard will be able to devote more time to other endeavors.
...unless you got a serious Freecell addiction going on.
Kind of offtopic, but I went to my grandmother's house to fix her computer and Freecell was up, so I hit F3 without even thinking twice. (F3 brings up the statistics page, with number of wins, losses, played games, winning streak, etc).
There's got to be a guinness world record about it somewhere... 15,324 games and counting.
The same side of our moon is always facing the earth. It has days and nights because of its orbit around the earth. Friction from tidal forces has long since brought its rotation in sync with its revolution.
Well yes, the same side of the moon faces the earth- but the same side of the Earth doesn't face the same side of the moon at all times like Charon and Pluto do. That's all I was trying to say.
Technically, Pluto doesn't have an orbit per se. It is locked into a power struggle with Charon, and it doesn't actually rotate when it revolves. Our moon rotates on its own day/night cycle as it revolves around the Earth, but the same side of Pluto is always facing the same side of Charon. Because of this, it's not technically orbiting, hence the argument about whether Charon is a moon and Pluto a planet.
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Well, like any MMO, the more time you put into it, the more rewarding the experience... eventually. The problem is that the kickoff time to do anything substantive is much greater than a single player game. Take Darkstar One for example: I can easily load up my last save game (5 seconds, max) and run a few smuggling missions from one planet to another, then save the game and be back to work within an hour. With EVE Online, an equivalent activity would take a few hours at minimum. Every MMO you play is geared to be a time sink, bar non.
Ahhh EGATrek, I pine for you...
You may want to reconsider, seeing as how that statement is an oxymoron.
Or it has had a very real and very positive effect on PC gaming... People are being more selective in making purchases because now they know what a quality game is really like. They won't be apt to go out and spend $50 on a crappy title, so they will wait until a blockbuster comes out to purchase it. Until game developers realize this however, gamers are boned.
She's just upstairs- why don't you go ask her now?
Haha, nice VG Cats reference...
Are you talking about wireless optical mice? Because wired optical mice get their power from the USB cable.
Only problem is that Zonk would be Anonymous Coward and your point is moot.
Yeah because doves are apt to fly directly into an airplane on purpose... It's not like birds TRY to get in the way of aircraft. And besides, at the end of the runway (which I have no idea how you would even get to in the first place in a truck) the airplane would be at least a hundred feet in the air. By the time a dove got to that altitude, the plane would be long gone.
The human mind, ever adaptable, will always defeat stupid pigeon holed "attack plans" like this, the same way we've defended against every other stupid assault in history.
I've seen the tank system in action, and let me tell you, it's an impressive sight. Not only does it work effectively, it works almost instantly after the projectile enters the bubble. We think of the whole process step by step, but realistically, the initial target acquisition, calculation and tracking only take milliseconds to complete. The longest part at about half a second is the actual destruction of the projectile. And yes, the demo/test that I watched was a man firing an RPG.
What you're failing to realize here is that the laser system doesn't need to be effective until a projectile crosses into the bubble. And then if the projectile is going to miss anyway, it does nothing. (It's accurate down to centimeters) The plane, pilot, passengers, altitude, and anything else about the plane itself is completely irrelevant.
Um, yes? "Detect, track, power up, and fire early enough to kill the warhead" has to be a few of the requirements of the contract, and they will be met first of all. Second of all, it already works... And compensating for other aircraft is irrelevant- again, the laser system does nothing until the projectile crosses into the bubble detection radius of the aircraft. And if other aircraft are close enough to that plane to worry about getting zapped by their missile defense system, then they have much bigger problems to worry about.
My point exactly... :)
... and then you plug in the network cable.
I work for the government as a contractor, and we were recently required to implement new password requirements to our users. The requirements imposed are rather ludicrous...
We have to use 2 uppercase, 2 lowercase, 2 numbers, 2 special characters, and it has to be 11 characters long. Oh and we change it every 60 days. Yeah... Sadly, no government official thinks what the parent said is true. To them more restrictions == security.
The spammer's point of view is that if the one eyed snake is big enough, you shouldn't have to charm it yourself.
sure it feels you up, and there's a lot of it, but it's just not very good
Sounds like the time I made love to that one mutated ugly fat chick.
You could see this happening with...
/obligatory Strongbad quote
With what?! You could see this happening with your girlfriend and her Mom?
You could see this happening with the war in Iraq? I mean what the f... Oh no... they got him! Someone stabbed him with a stake through the heart!!! Oh Trevor... I pine for you.
Ohhh ok. Yeah, I remember the good 'ol days when we would have day long matches of NS. I'd leave and come back later and they'd still be playing the same map with a lot of the same players.
I'm glad that you and your wife play. Otherwise I would be worried about your marriage.
7... hours?! Of NS!! Holy crap bawls... I certainly hope you had the Extra levels plugin enabled on that one.
FYI - Starcraft: Ghost has been cancelled. That's the official word from Blizzard anyhow. I seriously doubt it will stay canceled forever though, because they have developed quite a bit of a world for it. My feeling is that once The Burning Crusader expansion comes out for WoW, Blizzard will be able to devote more time to other endeavors.
...unless you got a serious Freecell addiction going on.
Kind of offtopic, but I went to my grandmother's house to fix her computer and Freecell was up, so I hit F3 without even thinking twice. (F3 brings up the statistics page, with number of wins, losses, played games, winning streak, etc).
There's got to be a guinness world record about it somewhere... 15,324 games and counting.
The same side of our moon is always facing the earth. It has days and nights because of its orbit around the earth. Friction from tidal forces has long since brought its rotation in sync with its revolution.
Well yes, the same side of the moon faces the earth- but the same side of the Earth doesn't face the same side of the moon at all times like Charon and Pluto do. That's all I was trying to say.
Technically, Pluto doesn't have an orbit per se. It is locked into a power struggle with Charon, and it doesn't actually rotate when it revolves. Our moon rotates on its own day/night cycle as it revolves around the Earth, but the same side of Pluto is always facing the same side of Charon. Because of this, it's not technically orbiting, hence the argument about whether Charon is a moon and Pluto a planet.
Not only is he AOL-less, but now he's been ./ed
OH NOES!!! Vincent has been EXECUTED!!! Run from TEH AOLZORZ!!!
*wink*
Uhh... one thing: I don't really think that Vincent was talking to himself on the phone about how he should and should not cancel his account.
Vincent was the victim here.