Since education is mandatory, I don't think schools will have much luck getting them to sign away rights to attend. You refuse to sign away your work, yet you have to goto school? that's forced extortion.
I know satellites are directional, but there are several satellites up that provide terrestial internet, could one not be adapted to provide internet access for the space station, so that astronauts could blog/e-mail in real time, etc.
I hate to break it to everyone who wants to look so smart by making this point over and over (could we have a few dozen redundants put out there?) but we certainly don't know everything there is to know about physics, and we've been known to be wrong and/or imcomplete in the past.
and their opinion is no more valid, or even less valid as I find that any game that is genuinely crap from a major advertisement purchaser doesn't get the shafting it deserves, yet a game of similar quality from a no-name developer/publisher usually gets raked over the coals.
At first I was extremely excited at the Wii. Having played video games since the mid 80s, It was basically on the PC, occasional rented console or at a friends place. I never owned a console. This was going to be my first, but now I'm not so sure. I've noticed that prices seem to be on par with the xbox 360 on a per game basis, $60, that'll be $70-$75 CAD likely. Not to mention its being marketed and seen as this revolutionary, social gaming console thats really pushing the fun.... imagine all the fun you'll have with Wii sports with only one controller.
If you're going to market a console like that, you have to include 2 controllers.. backwards compatability, yay. Using old controllers..yay. not including 2 of the new controllers. boo.
and a storm/stategic attack completely cripples the ship. Also is there any numbers on whether or not you could cover a giant tanker-like ship with enough solar panels to get it to move at an acceptable speed?
First things first: Separate residential network from the rest of the university. Give it big fat internal pipes. hint that there would be nothing to stop someone from running an internal tracker that wouldn't be limited in speed. Let them do what they will with it. It probably wouldn't take long for someone to set something up and people were sharing most of what they wanted anyway over it. Mirror linux distros and other legit items, or create an electronic form where a student could request a copy of a legit item, when its provided to them, they could use it on the internal tracker. Better yet set up your own internatl tracker for those kinds of items, someone will realize they work, and set up one for non-legit items.
This seems utterly useless. I could see adding a bit of solar for thew little bit you'd use an engine (getting into port, etc) but reports suggest people who LIVE on sail boats year round only use about $1500 worth of diesel in a year (depending on price, this figure was from a few years ago).
Its not like they're sucking the well dry everyday.
So, as you know, graphics and physics grind on large homogenous floating point data structures in a very straight-line structured way. Then we have AI and gameplay code. Lots of exceptions, tunable parameters, indirections and often messy. We hate this code, it's a mess, but this is the code that makes the game DIFFERENT. Here is the terrifying realization about the next generation consoles: I'm about to break a ton of NDAs here, oh well, haha, I never signed them anyway.
Gameplay code will get slower and harder to write on the next generation of consoles. Modern CPUs use out-of-order execution, which is there to make crappy code run fast. This was really good for the industry when it happened, although it annoyed many assembly language wizards in Sweden. Xenon and Cell are both in-order chips. What does this mean? It's cheaper for them to do this. They can drop a lot of cores. One out-of-order core is about four times [did I catch that right? Alice] the size of an in-order core. What does this do to our code? It's great for grinding on floating point, but for anything else it totally sucks. Rumours from people actually working on these chips - straight-line runs 1/3 to 1/10th the performance at the same clock speed. This sucks.
What I see is a bunch of downloadable content, which hasn't approached "expansion" level yet. There hasn't been a full blown expansion for a console yet that hasn't come in the form of a new game or GOTY edition.
I'm not particularly confident in Star Trek: Legacy. Another simul launch and those of us who can actually step back and look at it and not be blinded by the shinyness see what it did to Oblivion. I don't think this is going to be Armada 3, which is a shame because Armada was a nice game. A very good RTS that had some interesting options, like the ability to take an enemies ship and use it.
As far as if the expansion is coming... we'll see. They may ride the downloadable content gravy train.
The point being is that it'd be a while before they could re-release as a "GOTY" edition with the additional content. In the meantime they'd probably be inclined to improve the interface and other console-creep that tained the game. That would be wrong and they would admit their failure the first time around. Its better to deny everything, salt the earth and move on. From the responses I saw on the official forums, I don't expect that an expansion consisting of "more of the same" would be received with overwhelming enthusiasm from the PC crowd unless there were some improvements.
Then, we have Jerry Bruckheimer working as Executive Producer. which means the movie will be overblown crap. Its all this guy knows how to do. I'm convinced that the US could be bombed to oblivion with only himself and a rabid squirrel surviving and he could make an over the top drama about how the US kicked ass and won.
Because they've sold their soul to the console and consoles can't have expansions. Only entire new games. But hey..no...they haven't changed for the consoles, everything is just as awesome as it was with previous offerings.
Yeah google it you might find it. I remember reading an article around last november that sort of mentioned it, but it also said it was very early. I expect there will be a graphics upgrade, they'll fix some of the issues that irritated people, there will be minor integration to The Sims 2, much like SC4 had.
I pay a lot of attention to shipping prices. I'm sick of seeing "powersellers" who claim that it costs $95 to ship a USB thumb drive via the lowest and cheapest possible method, and then have the gall to charge $5 "required insurance" for a shipping method that includes insurance, or for a method where the actual insurance for the value of the item is only $1. I often send these people nasty comments. They're pricks and more of what ruins ebay. Ebay when asked about their policies which these types of listings violates, regurgitates bullshit form letters about how much they love and trust their powersellers to set appropriate fees. Its amazing they can let go of their ankles long enough to send out the form letters.
A real RPG involves more than running around hacking and slashing which any bot can do. Real RPGs often have indepth NPC interaction that a bot couldn't really accomplish (as it couldn't interpret the choices properly, without exceedingly extensive programming) You're confusing combat with overall gameplay, the exact problem of action RPGs.
The first place I noticed it was Diablo. Then slowly certain mags and reviewers started referring to these games as "RPGS" without the qualifier on the front. A linear game that a bot programmed by a 6 year old could run through doesn't remotely qualify as an RPG.
This would be a first step in my mind. Its a BS genre invented to give credibility to a style of game that is likely funded by those guys who make wrist braces for CTL. Just because you add a sword or a magic spell or any kind of mathematical character development to a game doesn't make it a roleplaying game, and trying to pass of a hack n slash click fest as having "Roleplaying elements" is bullshit.
What makes a roleplaying game a roleplaying game isn't the system its built on, but what occurs in the game. hence why tabletop games come in such a wide variety of flavours including diceless and systemless. Trying to pass off "skill points" as a roleplaying elemental is like claiming your RV has ferrari elements because it has a door and a steering wheel.
1)Set up an unsecure wireless access point 2)Isolate that access point so that it can't access the network or internet 3)Write script to quickly give the access point access to the entire network and internet 4)Wait for the letter 5)run the script 6)destroy the script 7)ask them to prove it wasn't someone who was using your access point
Not just off-line access to the files, but off-line access to your word processor, spreadsheet, etc.
If you're using a hosted app, what do you do with your laptop if you take it out of the office and can't get back into the corporate network, or access to where-ever its hosted?
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Since education is mandatory, I don't think schools will have much luck getting them to sign away rights to attend. You refuse to sign away your work, yet you have to goto school? that's forced extortion.
I know satellites are directional, but there are several satellites up that provide terrestial internet, could one not be adapted to provide internet access for the space station, so that astronauts could blog/e-mail in real time, etc.
I hate to break it to everyone who wants to look so smart by making this point over and over (could we have a few dozen redundants put out there?) but we certainly don't know everything there is to know about physics, and we've been known to be wrong and/or imcomplete in the past.
and their opinion is no more valid, or even less valid as I find that any game that is genuinely crap from a major advertisement purchaser doesn't get the shafting it deserves, yet a game of similar quality from a no-name developer/publisher usually gets raked over the coals.
At first I was extremely excited at the Wii. Having played video games since the mid 80s, It was basically on the PC, occasional rented console or at a friends place. I never owned a console. This was going to be my first, but now I'm not so sure. I've noticed that prices seem to be on par with the xbox 360 on a per game basis, $60, that'll be $70-$75 CAD likely. Not to mention its being marketed and seen as this revolutionary, social gaming console thats really pushing the fun....
imagine all the fun you'll have with Wii sports with only one controller.
If you're going to market a console like that, you have to include 2 controllers..
backwards compatability, yay. Using old controllers..yay.
not including 2 of the new controllers. boo.
and a storm/stategic attack completely cripples the ship.
Also is there any numbers on whether or not you could cover a giant tanker-like ship with enough solar panels to get it to move at an acceptable speed?
First things first:
Separate residential network from the rest of the university.
Give it big fat internal pipes.
hint that there would be nothing to stop someone from running an internal tracker that wouldn't be limited in speed.
Let them do what they will with it.
It probably wouldn't take long for someone to set something up and people were sharing most of what they wanted anyway over it.
Mirror linux distros and other legit items, or create an electronic form where a student could request a copy of a legit item, when its provided to them, they could use it on the internal tracker.
Better yet set up your own internatl tracker for those kinds of items, someone will realize they work, and set up one for non-legit items.
This seems utterly useless. I could see adding a bit of solar for thew little bit you'd use an engine (getting into port, etc) but reports suggest people who LIVE on sail boats year round only use about $1500 worth of diesel in a year (depending on price, this figure was from a few years ago).
Its not like they're sucking the well dry everyday.
That would assume I actually want or own one in the first place.
What I see is a bunch of downloadable content, which hasn't approached "expansion" level yet. There hasn't been a full blown expansion for a console yet that hasn't come in the form of a new game or GOTY edition.
I'm not particularly confident in Star Trek: Legacy. Another simul launch and those of us who can actually step back and look at it and not be blinded by the shinyness see what it did to Oblivion. I don't think this is going to be Armada 3, which is a shame because Armada was a nice game. A very good RTS that had some interesting options, like the ability to take an enemies ship and use it.
As far as if the expansion is coming... we'll see. They may ride the downloadable content gravy train.
Thats because Morrowind was a step up. Shall it be one step forward, 2 back?
The point being is that it'd be a while before they could re-release as a "GOTY" edition with the additional content. In the meantime they'd probably be inclined to improve the interface and other console-creep that tained the game. That would be wrong and they would admit their failure the first time around. Its better to deny everything, salt the earth and move on. From the responses I saw on the official forums, I don't expect that an expansion consisting of "more of the same" would be received with overwhelming enthusiasm from the PC crowd unless there were some improvements.
Then, we have Jerry Bruckheimer working as Executive Producer. which means the movie will be overblown crap. Its all this guy knows how to do. I'm convinced that the US could be bombed to oblivion with only himself and a rabid squirrel surviving and he could make an over the top drama about how the US kicked ass and won.
I refuse to see anything he touches. Ever.
Because they've sold their soul to the console and consoles can't have expansions. Only entire new games. But hey..no...they haven't changed for the consoles, everything is just as awesome as it was with previous offerings.
Yeah google it you might find it. I remember reading an article around last november that sort of mentioned it, but it also said it was very early. I expect there will be a graphics upgrade, they'll fix some of the issues that irritated people, there will be minor integration to The Sims 2, much like SC4 had.
Last I heard Simcity 5 was under way..all be it very early now. No idea who's working on it specifically.
Its repetitive and grinding crap like 99% of the mmorpgs out there.
I pay a lot of attention to shipping prices. I'm sick of seeing "powersellers" who claim that it costs $95 to ship a USB thumb drive via the lowest and cheapest possible method, and then have the gall to charge $5 "required insurance" for a shipping method that includes insurance, or for a method where the actual insurance for the value of the item is only $1. I often send these people nasty comments. They're pricks and more of what ruins ebay. Ebay when asked about their policies which these types of listings violates, regurgitates bullshit form letters about how much they love and trust their powersellers to set appropriate fees. Its amazing they can let go of their ankles long enough to send out the form letters.
A real RPG involves more than running around hacking and slashing which any bot can do. Real RPGs often have indepth NPC interaction that a bot couldn't really accomplish (as it couldn't interpret the choices properly, without exceedingly extensive programming) You're confusing combat with overall gameplay, the exact problem of action RPGs.
The first place I noticed it was Diablo. Then slowly certain mags and reviewers started referring to these games as "RPGS" without the qualifier on the front. A linear game that a bot programmed by a 6 year old could run through doesn't remotely qualify as an RPG.
This would be a first step in my mind. Its a BS genre invented to give credibility to a style of game that is likely funded by those guys who make wrist braces for CTL. Just because you add a sword or a magic spell or any kind of mathematical character development to a game doesn't make it a roleplaying game, and trying to pass of a hack n slash click fest as having "Roleplaying elements" is bullshit.
What makes a roleplaying game a roleplaying game isn't the system its built on, but what occurs in the game. hence why tabletop games come in such a wide variety of flavours including diceless and systemless. Trying to pass off "skill points" as a roleplaying elemental is like claiming your RV has ferrari elements because it has a door and a steering wheel.
1)Set up an unsecure wireless access point
2)Isolate that access point so that it can't access the network or internet
3)Write script to quickly give the access point access to the entire network and internet
4)Wait for the letter
5)run the script
6)destroy the script
7)ask them to prove it wasn't someone who was using your access point
alternative:
1)move to another country
Not just off-line access to the files, but off-line access to your word processor, spreadsheet, etc.
If you're using a hosted app, what do you do with your laptop if you take it out of the office and can't get back into the corporate network, or access to where-ever its hosted?