The article states the latency for the camera to recognize a new position is 10 miliseconds, which IIRC is close to what wireless controller lag is. The better complaint is that it is only accurate to about 1.5", which is fine for large gesture based gaming, but minor refined movements won't be picked up.
Furthermore, I understand that some christian branches, such as Mormons believe what you say, where the water/bread is symbolic, but as far as offical Roman Catholic Church doctrine, Transubstantiation does occur, and is not symbolic. Unless everything i've been taught about the catholics has been wrong, from all sources except for some guy on Slashdot.
Wat?
Transubstantiation is official church Doctrine for over 1/6th of the earth's population, and has been since The Council of Trent in 1551. I know it's simplistic to say that 1 billion people in the church all believe this teaching exactly, but come on, we're not talking about some strange, obscure cult here...
Price is my only complaint about this idea. If I could put $2.00 worth of "Coins" into my account, and if the games were something like 5 points a play, (which allows for what, 32 plays of these games?), This idea would be great. Only pay for what you play. I don't need to pay $5 to play most of these games more than a few times, and the low price gives you incentive to "go to the arcade" to play, making the arcade a social hub, as well as a gaming hub. By making buying the game only worth 10 plays, there is NO reason to actually use tokens.
The point of arcades and tokens (at least from my born in the 80's perspective) is to allow you to play a bunch of random games that you wouldn't have the money to afford to buy and play on your home computer, or to play games that your home computer couldn't run. Considering that these games are being run in an emulated arcade inside your xbox, the latter reason is out the window, and the only reason to use tokens is affordability, which they seem to have missed the mark.
This whole "build your own arcade" idea would be more interesting if you could build your own arcade that your friends could come and "play" for free if you actually bought the game, but I don't think they're going this route either. this idea screams accountants messing with, and missing, the entire point of an Arcade.
So now stopping someone from lying about what their PAC is for, to get tax exempt money, is censorship? I'm with you on freedom of speech, but Grayson isn't aruging against the mean words on the site, it's the fact that she's breaking campaign finance laws.
um... most of the money spend on Ares I already has gone a long way to get Ares V ready. The 5 Segment SRB has already been tested, twice, and is only a modified 4 seg that's been flying for years. What moron would take all of that 30+ years of engineering data and information and then go to a private company who has only tested a few rockets, none of which are ready for manned flight up to the safety standards that are required?
Wanna come play an MMO with me? I'm always the third guy from the right in the frontline shield phalanx. There was this one time, where i was sitting there, like usual, and this calvary got to close, and I was like *block* and I totally kept him from getting through the frontline.
This is why I like COD's Kill Cam. There were many times where I thought "No way that guy killed me in 2 bullets with a SMG", only to find that there was a sniper up in a tower across the map who was taking pot shots at me too. The feedback you get about how people take you out is invaluable, and one of the reasons why I play COD Multiplayer more than most multiplayer games.
This is why this mission is interesting, and should not be censored by any government. The question I've asked my friends who have played it is how they have responded the first time through the level. The implications of being found out are laid out in the cutscene before the level, so everyone I've talked to have reacted differently. I mean, games rarely make you feel emotions, even when they are presented in good vs. evil, such as Fallout 3. The fact that this game does give you moral questions is interesting and does so in a way I haven't seen to date (as long as you accept that these aren't just polygons and nothing you do matters anyway).
This is the classic moral question of "Do you push the fat guy in front of a train to stop it so it doesn't kill 5 people, even if there is a chance the train could possibly stop on it's own?" put into video game form. (Spoiler: Turns out pusing the fat guy in front of the train kills the fat guy and everyone on the train, and happens to kill the 5 people on the track also.)
Totally. I'd much rather watch the episode where the Enterprise was reposessed due to the military cuts in spending, but because the construction was contracted to several different manufacturers (who then sub-contracted) and nobody really owned the thing, and because thousands of shares of it were sold off, making out who actually owned the thing an impossibility, and nobody knew who to serve the intergalactic summons to.
Oh, and the Klingons were waiting outside of spaceport cloaked the entire episode... waiting for a fair battle.. Good times.
This late into the generation though, there are hundreds of decent games you can get for less than $10.
Here's a few: Dead Rising, Assassin's Creed, Mirror's Edge, GTA4, Viva Pinata. Yes, many of the 360 games are multi-platform, but the used market is usually much cheaper for consoles, due to the volume of games on the market and no DRM-Resell issues that PC games often come with. If you're paying $60 for anything but release date games, you're doing it wrong. (Even then, day of release games can often be found for sale if preordered from places like Amazon.)
This is a pretty good idea. For that price, i'd want both Hard news, say a Reuters news feed, a few magazines like newsweek, and even some more noteable blogs could be added. I also would want some of my "tip" to go to the org. that produced the information, so that they can focus on other important, but less popular stuff.
Using the tip method too, it might be a good idea to to a retroactive sliding scale for the amount of content you use. Not a hard bill mind you, more of a "You tipped 1,000 news articles in the last year, which means 500 articles you tipped were not fully compensated. Please consider paying more this year for your subscription." and allowing you to pay a higher rate.
Reading this list, I can't help but think this needs to be written as a children's book for sadistic parents who enjoy watching their children struggle.
Most Aerospace Gov. Contracts are no longer cost plus. They are competitively bid on by all the big names, and the company that can do it the safest first, and the cheapest next, gets the contract (generally). That's why the next generation launch vehicle hasn't been finalized and funded. All the companies are still trying to prove their version is the best.
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Wow. Just... wow.
No, they advertise Starcraft II and Diablo III in the article too...
Not the same. With this stat tracking, one copy of the game tracks your data/persona. You (probably) will not be able to "clear" your stats (unless they charge $20 for it). So, while in most games, you can create a savegame, and play through the game while someone else in your house plays through on a different savegame, this will not be possible. If i've been playing for 200+ hours online, and my friend tries to play, he'll be stuck at level of a 200+ hour level trying to figure out what is going on, all while damaging my hard earned spot.
At least with Pokemon you can clear you gamesave and start over. If Blizz.Net allowed this, it would break all the anti-cheating/noob-killing they've implemented into the system.
Yes. So really it should be Ferngully: Now With Big Blue Fairies! Now the fairy dancing music scene with the cassette player will be with an iPod-Touch playing Lady Gaga.
Most of their profits are realized through merchandizing. . . The most Avatar can hope for is some blacklight posters sold at Spencers.
Strange. When I see halo-Warthog type vehicles, dropships, and tall blue aliens, the first thing that comes to my mind is how much this movie was built to be made into toys.
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With the Ares I, NASA has been trying (badly) to design their own rocket to get to low earth orbit (LEO), instead of using rockets which either already exist or are under development
Huh? Ares I is based on the old RSRM motors, used for the shuttle, with minor tweaks to adjust for being a single stack. You, Mr. I-got-a-degree-in-business, need to realize that beyond your buzzwords and running management, you have no idea what you are talking about.
It takes 2x as much xp to level as it would have. So, it's Twice as meaningful. we all know it doesn't matter, since most time will be spent at 85 anyway.
Intelligent design and (young earth) creationism are in general rather distinct,
Ah, no.
Creationism = "god did it."
Intelligent Design = "Something Big (possibly called God) did it."
I have a really, really tough time understanding how these are rather distinct. Even those who first promoted intelligent design see them as the same thing, only removing God from Intelligent design, since that was the major reason why creationism couldn't be taught in schools.
Anyways, Neither creationism or ID have anything to do with young earthers (or at least are only tangentially related). Young Earthers took all the dates/ages in the bible, added them up, and came to 6,000 years, so therefore, the earth must only be 6,000 years old.
A bank needs a bailout from the Federal government.
The Arizona government needs money.
The Arizona government mortgages their property to get money from a bank.
The Arizona government gives the money to the bank.
Who wins?.
Well, looks Like Banks win twice, Arizona wins once, and Federal government loses (if the funds are not repaid).
Looks like the Feds should just lend the money to AZ directly, with repayment due when the recession turns around, with minor interest to cover the cost of lending.
Yes. A million times yes. In a perfect world, it would be 64 vs. 64 players online (minimum), with the ability to have a few people on the capital ships (a la Battlefield 1942). I would imagine a leveling system sort of like COD4, allowing you to have access to perks and better ships the more xp you get.
No ground combat, though. I can't get behind the Battlefront series because it doesn't do vehicles or ground combat well, it does both halfway, and isn't very enjoyable because of this.
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The article states the latency for the camera to recognize a new position is 10 miliseconds, which IIRC is close to what wireless controller lag is. The better complaint is that it is only accurate to about 1.5", which is fine for large gesture based gaming, but minor refined movements won't be picked up.
Furthermore, I understand that some christian branches, such as Mormons believe what you say, where the water/bread is symbolic, but as far as offical Roman Catholic Church doctrine, Transubstantiation does occur, and is not symbolic. Unless everything i've been taught about the catholics has been wrong, from all sources except for some guy on Slashdot.
Wat? Transubstantiation is official church Doctrine for over 1/6th of the earth's population, and has been since The Council of Trent in 1551. I know it's simplistic to say that 1 billion people in the church all believe this teaching exactly, but come on, we're not talking about some strange, obscure cult here...
Price is my only complaint about this idea. If I could put $2.00 worth of "Coins" into my account, and if the games were something like 5 points a play, (which allows for what, 32 plays of these games?), This idea would be great. Only pay for what you play. I don't need to pay $5 to play most of these games more than a few times, and the low price gives you incentive to "go to the arcade" to play, making the arcade a social hub, as well as a gaming hub. By making buying the game only worth 10 plays, there is NO reason to actually use tokens.
The point of arcades and tokens (at least from my born in the 80's perspective) is to allow you to play a bunch of random games that you wouldn't have the money to afford to buy and play on your home computer, or to play games that your home computer couldn't run. Considering that these games are being run in an emulated arcade inside your xbox, the latter reason is out the window, and the only reason to use tokens is affordability, which they seem to have missed the mark.
This whole "build your own arcade" idea would be more interesting if you could build your own arcade that your friends could come and "play" for free if you actually bought the game, but I don't think they're going this route either. this idea screams accountants messing with, and missing, the entire point of an Arcade.
So now stopping someone from lying about what their PAC is for, to get tax exempt money, is censorship? I'm with you on freedom of speech, but Grayson isn't aruging against the mean words on the site, it's the fact that she's breaking campaign finance laws.
um... most of the money spend on Ares I already has gone a long way to get Ares V ready. The 5 Segment SRB has already been tested, twice, and is only a modified 4 seg that's been flying for years. What moron would take all of that 30+ years of engineering data and information and then go to a private company who has only tested a few rockets, none of which are ready for manned flight up to the safety standards that are required?
Wanna come play an MMO with me? I'm always the third guy from the right in the frontline shield phalanx. There was this one time, where i was sitting there, like usual, and this calvary got to close, and I was like *block* and I totally kept him from getting through the frontline.
It was awesome.
This is why I like COD's Kill Cam. There were many times where I thought "No way that guy killed me in 2 bullets with a SMG", only to find that there was a sniper up in a tower across the map who was taking pot shots at me too. The feedback you get about how people take you out is invaluable, and one of the reasons why I play COD Multiplayer more than most multiplayer games.
This is why this mission is interesting, and should not be censored by any government. The question I've asked my friends who have played it is how they have responded the first time through the level. The implications of being found out are laid out in the cutscene before the level, so everyone I've talked to have reacted differently. I mean, games rarely make you feel emotions, even when they are presented in good vs. evil, such as Fallout 3. The fact that this game does give you moral questions is interesting and does so in a way I haven't seen to date (as long as you accept that these aren't just polygons and nothing you do matters anyway).
This is the classic moral question of "Do you push the fat guy in front of a train to stop it so it doesn't kill 5 people, even if there is a chance the train could possibly stop on it's own?" put into video game form. (Spoiler: Turns out pusing the fat guy in front of the train kills the fat guy and everyone on the train, and happens to kill the 5 people on the track also.)
"Winsock"
That word is a swearword to anybody who was new to networking at the time.
Totally. I'd much rather watch the episode where the Enterprise was reposessed due to the military cuts in spending, but because the construction was contracted to several different manufacturers (who then sub-contracted) and nobody really owned the thing, and because thousands of shares of it were sold off, making out who actually owned the thing an impossibility, and nobody knew who to serve the intergalactic summons to.
Oh, and the Klingons were waiting outside of spaceport cloaked the entire episode... waiting for a fair battle.. Good times.
This late into the generation though, there are hundreds of decent games you can get for less than $10.
Here's a few: Dead Rising, Assassin's Creed, Mirror's Edge, GTA4, Viva Pinata. Yes, many of the 360 games are multi-platform, but the used market is usually much cheaper for consoles, due to the volume of games on the market and no DRM-Resell issues that PC games often come with. If you're paying $60 for anything but release date games, you're doing it wrong. (Even then, day of release games can often be found for sale if preordered from places like Amazon.)
This is a pretty good idea. For that price, i'd want both Hard news, say a Reuters news feed, a few magazines like newsweek, and even some more noteable blogs could be added. I also would want some of my "tip" to go to the org. that produced the information, so that they can focus on other important, but less popular stuff.
Using the tip method too, it might be a good idea to to a retroactive sliding scale for the amount of content you use. Not a hard bill mind you, more of a "You tipped 1,000 news articles in the last year, which means 500 articles you tipped were not fully compensated. Please consider paying more this year for your subscription." and allowing you to pay a higher rate.
Reading this list, I can't help but think this needs to be written as a children's book for sadistic parents who enjoy watching their children struggle.
Most Aerospace Gov. Contracts are no longer cost plus. They are competitively bid on by all the big names, and the company that can do it the safest first, and the cheapest next, gets the contract (generally). That's why the next generation launch vehicle hasn't been finalized and funded. All the companies are still trying to prove their version is the best.
No, they advertise Starcraft II and Diablo III in the article too...
Not the same. With this stat tracking, one copy of the game tracks your data/persona. You (probably) will not be able to "clear" your stats (unless they charge $20 for it). So, while in most games, you can create a savegame, and play through the game while someone else in your house plays through on a different savegame, this will not be possible. If i've been playing for 200+ hours online, and my friend tries to play, he'll be stuck at level of a 200+ hour level trying to figure out what is going on, all while damaging my hard earned spot.
At least with Pokemon you can clear you gamesave and start over. If Blizz.Net allowed this, it would break all the anti-cheating/noob-killing they've implemented into the system.
Yes. So really it should be Ferngully: Now With Big Blue Fairies! Now the fairy dancing music scene with the cassette player will be with an iPod-Touch playing Lady Gaga.
Strange. When I see halo-Warthog type vehicles, dropships, and tall blue aliens, the first thing that comes to my mind is how much this movie was built to be made into toys.
Huh? Ares I is based on the old RSRM motors, used for the shuttle, with minor tweaks to adjust for being a single stack. You, Mr. I-got-a-degree-in-business, need to realize that beyond your buzzwords and running management, you have no idea what you are talking about.
It takes 2x as much xp to level as it would have. So, it's Twice as meaningful. we all know it doesn't matter, since most time will be spent at 85 anyway.
Ah, no.
Creationism = "god did it."
Intelligent Design = "Something Big (possibly called God) did it."
I have a really, really tough time understanding how these are rather distinct. Even those who first promoted intelligent design see them as the same thing, only removing God from Intelligent design, since that was the major reason why creationism couldn't be taught in schools.
Anyways, Neither creationism or ID have anything to do with young earthers (or at least are only tangentially related). Young Earthers took all the dates/ages in the bible, added them up, and came to 6,000 years, so therefore, the earth must only be 6,000 years old.
Well, looks Like Banks win twice, Arizona wins once, and Federal government loses (if the funds are not repaid).
Looks like the Feds should just lend the money to AZ directly, with repayment due when the recession turns around, with minor interest to cover the cost of lending.
Yes. A million times yes. In a perfect world, it would be 64 vs. 64 players online (minimum), with the ability to have a few people on the capital ships (a la Battlefield 1942). I would imagine a leveling system sort of like COD4, allowing you to have access to perks and better ships the more xp you get.
No ground combat, though. I can't get behind the Battlefront series because it doesn't do vehicles or ground combat well, it does both halfway, and isn't very enjoyable because of this.