Hell, I'm surprised they haven't done something like that already.
Yes! That is very surprising guys. Right? Oh yeah, completely surprising.
But to take it seriously for a moment. It would be very hard to keep it in orbit. Even though it is in 'space' there is still a bit of drag. You would then need very complex algorithms to perform station keeping. It would require a lot of energy to maintain such an orbit, and still take pictures.
But again, we would ignore the 'curiosity' factor that governments would have about a piece of space junk that happens to maintain an orbit that passes over their country.
Satellite is available throughout most of the US. That pretty much kills your un-sourced argument right there. Of course, now the trolls will try to act like satellite doesn't count, that always seems to happen when they're told it's existence makes their "cable monopoly" rant fall apart.
Ok, I won't say that Satellite doesn't count. Why don't you tell us why it is a viable alternative to cable internet.
Or will I have to buy the books and get a group of like-minded geeks together for old times sake?
I'm actually a bit curious about this aspect. I've recently moved, and unfortunately had to leave my gaming group behind. In the meantime, I've turned a few acres of my property into a nice pen and paper gaming area (Deck, grill, 2 room building for when it rains). It is great for bringing together the old gang for some planned weekends, but for most of them its at best a 3 hour drive. I'm looking for some more regular players rather than the 3x/year events we currently plan.
Slashdot seems as an appropriate place as any to ask, Has anyone come across a good bulletin board, or method of finding a new group of 'geeks'? Have any of you met with any success?
Any input device that requires you to continually keep your hands elevated will never work. Not to mention, constant movement. The reason a mouse and keyboard is so effective is because you can use them both all day long with little to no effort.
It isn't trying to be the most comfortable, it is trying to be the closest facsimile to the simulated object.
If keeping an object elevated was always wrong, then we would never have enjoyed the use of light-guns and they are still popular in arcades.
Wasn't there a segment on NPR about a cellphone with an integrated 'reader' that did OCR on pictures taken with your cell phone? I could definately see OCR as something that you would want to offload to a server, potentially one designed just for that.
I'm not sure about everyone else but I wouldn't mind paying an extra $10/month if I had unlimited music downloads.
I certainly would mind. I'm certain that a few (majority) other people wouldn't go for it anyway. Aren't there already services where you pay $10/month to download music? I haven't downloaded a song in months. That $10/month for unlimited downloads would average out to about $60 a song for me. No thanks.
Actually they do me a favor by skipping that whole step of me wasting my time trying to figure out how to get the video off the disk and onto my backup server.
I can't think of the last thing that I downloaded that I didn't already purchase.
Would you rather have a shovel, or a backhoe with busted hydraulics? I don't give a damn what tools they want if they can't figure out how to use the ones they currently have.
I don't, but it doesn't seem to affect the prices.
In the real world, it is really annoying to find that services or products are sold at absurd prices because teenagers can't figure out what it should cost.
I would love to be able to go to the store and pick up a USB cable for a reasonable price, but all the god damned collusion has forced the price of it everywhere to ludicrous levels.
It's good for the online retailers of course, but its freaking annoying for me.
Chaos Schmaeous. When I time travel, I intentionally kill every butterfly I find.
And sometimes, on a warm summer's eve, if you look to the west... you will see, silhouetted against the twilight, the form of a doughnut falling from the sky.
The current methods that are applied involve the use of pestacides that strive to do the exact same thing. Except the pestacides also kill other insects, and stick around in the enviornment.
Given the choice between the two, making a species of mosquito extinct is actually the least disruptive to the ecosystem.
His point is that a line has to be drawn. He notes that no one sanely argues that the US constitution secures the citizen right to bear nuclear arms. Therefore, he concludes, the right secured by the constitution is not absolute and, in consequence, there are both arms which citizens can bear and arms which they cannot. Now, the constitution does not specify where the line is to be drawn, so, as the GP clearly concluded, a line needs to be drawn.
His logic is perfect.
I would argue that the arms a citizen cannot bear, should also be the arms that our country cannot bear.
Actually it was designed because their current networks were unreliable. While robustness as a defense against an attack was planned, it wasn't the main focus. The suvivability was but one of many needs.
Call BS. I don't have time to research dev statements because some random person on the net is incredulous.
You really doubt that Blizzard had to hold content back from retail releases because it wasn't finished yet? Then I guess Silithus being full of mobs that had no loot tables was a feature. When this game was released, there was plenty that was obviously not finished, or intentionally held back and released in a slew of content patches.
I don't blame them for it, but that was what happened.
I understand that you need to spend some time 'learning' a new character, but I'm certain that at this point, none of us even need to read the quest dialog anymore. I've seriously cut back the time I invest into WoW, I can't handle the timesinks. I'm just lucky that I'm one of the 0.01% that is lucky enough to have a raiding guild that puts up with a casual gamer.
Leveling a character is faster, but it certainly isn't anything that you will notice. I just level faster because I'm so familiar with the game. It still feels like it is taking me forever to level my alts.
If WoW dropped the obvious time and money sinks, I'd probably want to play more. But each time I log in I feel the urge to play decrease. I probably only play 3 hours a week now. Give me a month or two and I'll probably drop the subscription if nothing changes.
I'm curious. What for? And is it stuff you could, if you're honest, change your lifestyle a bit to avoid? Shooting and lugging grizzly bears home?
Upstate NY, no grizzlies here, and the black bears aren't that much of a concern.
It is simple for me, I've got a farm to maintain. If there is a way to do that with just a truck then I'm all ears. I actually used to borrow a truck from a friend whenever I needed it, but that is not something you can do on a regular basis without intruding on the friendship, and I wasn't about to offer him money and turn a friendship into a business.
Quite honestly, people don't really understand the need for a truck until they come visit. After that, they look at me like I was insane for not having one for almost 2 years.
I considered a hybrid or flexfuel truck. The geek in me really wanted to try to convert an engine to use recycled oil. I just couldn't afford it.
My wife needed several medical operations in a fairly short amount of time, so I am cash strapped. When physical therapy WITH insurance costs $40 a visit, and she needs it 3x a week it really cuts into my cash reserves. I had to buy what I could afford, and I really needed a truck.
I would really love to be 'green'. I have projects already planned out to convert to grid-connected wind electricity generation and/or hydro electric power (I live on a windy hill with a lot of water reserves). But with the medical bills, the gas guzzling truck is what turned out to be the most cost effective solution, even considering the higher gas prices.
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Hell, I'm surprised they haven't done something like that already.
Yes! That is very surprising guys. Right? Oh yeah, completely surprising.
But to take it seriously for a moment. It would be very hard to keep it in orbit. Even though it is in 'space' there is still a bit of drag. You would then need very complex algorithms to perform station keeping. It would require a lot of energy to maintain such an orbit, and still take pictures.
But again, we would ignore the 'curiosity' factor that governments would have about a piece of space junk that happens to maintain an orbit that passes over their country.
Satellite is available throughout most of the US. That pretty much kills your un-sourced argument right there. Of course, now the trolls will try to act like satellite doesn't count, that always seems to happen when they're told it's existence makes their "cable monopoly" rant fall apart.
Ok, I won't say that Satellite doesn't count. Why don't you tell us why it is a viable alternative to cable internet.
I'd appreciate it. I'll also go check out the forums. Thanks :)
Or will I have to buy the books and get a group of like-minded geeks together for old times sake?
I'm actually a bit curious about this aspect. I've recently moved, and unfortunately had to leave my gaming group behind. In the meantime, I've turned a few acres of my property into a nice pen and paper gaming area (Deck, grill, 2 room building for when it rains). It is great for bringing together the old gang for some planned weekends, but for most of them its at best a 3 hour drive. I'm looking for some more regular players rather than the 3x/year events we currently plan.
Slashdot seems as an appropriate place as any to ask, Has anyone come across a good bulletin board, or method of finding a new group of 'geeks'? Have any of you met with any success?
Any input device that requires you to continually keep your hands elevated will never work. Not to mention, constant movement. The reason a mouse and keyboard is so effective is because you can use them both all day long with little to no effort.
It isn't trying to be the most comfortable, it is trying to be the closest facsimile to the simulated object.
If keeping an object elevated was always wrong, then we would never have enjoyed the use of light-guns and they are still popular in arcades.
Wasn't there a segment on NPR about a cellphone with an integrated 'reader' that did OCR on pictures taken with your cell phone? I could definately see OCR as something that you would want to offload to a server, potentially one designed just for that.
I don't know about that. That is a lot of boat to sink.
Of course, I imagine it would also take a hell of a lot of genetically modified mosquitos to scare the cat, too.
I find that one extraordinarily large genetically modified mosquito works as well.
I'm not sure about everyone else but I wouldn't mind paying an extra $10/month if I had unlimited music downloads.
I certainly would mind. I'm certain that a few (majority) other people wouldn't go for it anyway. Aren't there already services where you pay $10/month to download music? I haven't downloaded a song in months. That $10/month for unlimited downloads would average out to about $60 a song for me. No thanks.
Actually they do me a favor by skipping that whole step of me wasting my time trying to figure out how to get the video off the disk and onto my backup server.
I can't think of the last thing that I downloaded that I didn't already purchase.
Make the tools available, for crying out loud.
Would you rather have a shovel, or a backhoe with busted hydraulics? I don't give a damn what tools they want if they can't figure out how to use the ones they currently have.
I don't, but it doesn't seem to affect the prices.
In the real world, it is really annoying to find that services or products are sold at absurd prices because teenagers can't figure out what it should cost.
I would love to be able to go to the store and pick up a USB cable for a reasonable price, but all the god damned collusion has forced the price of it everywhere to ludicrous levels.
It's good for the online retailers of course, but its freaking annoying for me.
More surveillance and less oversight?
Who could vote no?
And after it takes effect, who would dare to vote no?
So if we kill the mosquitoes, the bats die.... then the mosquitoes that are dead rise from the grave and become zombie mosquitoes? Fuck that.
Don't fuck with a complex and chaotic system.
Chaos Schmaeous. When I time travel, I intentionally kill every butterfly I find.
And sometimes, on a warm summer's eve, if you look to the west... you will see, silhouetted against the twilight, the form of a doughnut falling from the sky.
The current methods that are applied involve the use of pestacides that strive to do the exact same thing. Except the pestacides also kill other insects, and stick around in the enviornment.
Given the choice between the two, making a species of mosquito extinct is actually the least disruptive to the ecosystem.
His point is that a line has to be drawn. He notes that no one sanely argues that the US constitution secures the citizen right to bear nuclear arms. Therefore, he concludes, the right secured by the constitution is not absolute and, in consequence, there are both arms which citizens can bear and arms which they cannot. Now, the constitution does not specify where the line is to be drawn, so, as the GP clearly concluded, a line needs to be drawn.
His logic is perfect.
I would argue that the arms a citizen cannot bear, should also be the arms that our country cannot bear.
Nasty Hobbitses...and their mean Higgses make Precious feel so heavy.
The patent was written so that it would be a one time fee of $1000. In terms of business costs and licensing fees, that's peanuts.
Actually it was designed because their current networks were unreliable. While robustness as a defense against an attack was planned, it wasn't the main focus. The suvivability was but one of many needs.
Call BS. I don't have time to research dev statements because some random person on the net is incredulous.
You really doubt that Blizzard had to hold content back from retail releases because it wasn't finished yet? Then I guess Silithus being full of mobs that had no loot tables was a feature. When this game was released, there was plenty that was obviously not finished, or intentionally held back and released in a slew of content patches.
I don't blame them for it, but that was what happened.
I'm not really noticing.
I understand that you need to spend some time 'learning' a new character, but I'm certain that at this point, none of us even need to read the quest dialog anymore. I've seriously cut back the time I invest into WoW, I can't handle the timesinks. I'm just lucky that I'm one of the 0.01% that is lucky enough to have a raiding guild that puts up with a casual gamer.
Leveling a character is faster, but it certainly isn't anything that you will notice. I just level faster because I'm so familiar with the game. It still feels like it is taking me forever to level my alts.
If WoW dropped the obvious time and money sinks, I'd probably want to play more. But each time I log in I feel the urge to play decrease. I probably only play 3 hours a week now. Give me a month or two and I'll probably drop the subscription if nothing changes.
Content that Blizzard actually admitted was supposed to be a part of the original retail game.
I'm curious. What for? And is it stuff you could, if you're honest, change your lifestyle a bit to avoid? Shooting and lugging grizzly bears home?
Upstate NY, no grizzlies here, and the black bears aren't that much of a concern.
It is simple for me, I've got a farm to maintain. If there is a way to do that with just a truck then I'm all ears. I actually used to borrow a truck from a friend whenever I needed it, but that is not something you can do on a regular basis without intruding on the friendship, and I wasn't about to offer him money and turn a friendship into a business.
Quite honestly, people don't really understand the need for a truck until they come visit. After that, they look at me like I was insane for not having one for almost 2 years.
I considered a hybrid or flexfuel truck. The geek in me really wanted to try to convert an engine to use recycled oil. I just couldn't afford it.
My wife needed several medical operations in a fairly short amount of time, so I am cash strapped. When physical therapy WITH insurance costs $40 a visit, and she needs it 3x a week it really cuts into my cash reserves. I had to buy what I could afford, and I really needed a truck.
I would really love to be 'green'. I have projects already planned out to convert to grid-connected wind electricity generation and/or hydro electric power (I live on a windy hill with a lot of water reserves). But with the medical bills, the gas guzzling truck is what turned out to be the most cost effective solution, even considering the higher gas prices.