FYI, VTEC isn't really the same as a turbo charger. While it does give you more power when you need it, the real benefit is making the ride smoother at higher speeds by lowering the RPMs needed to maintain the speed. See here for a short video on it.
It'll suck when Yellowstone blows. Pretty much everyone in Montana, Idaho, the western half of Washington and Oregon, North East Nevada, Wyoming, and North West Colorado is dead inside a week just from the dust cloud. Let's not forget to mention the people within the rather large blast zone that will die during the eruption itself. 7 months or so down the way, the world is in volcanic winter and the average temperature drops about 15 degrees Celsius.
Even better, the overdue earthquake in the Cascadia Subduction Zone is expected to be greater than 9.0 It'll cause a tsunami to hit the western seaboard of the US and Canada, from British Columbia down to the northern half of California. It hits the coast at over 700 feet within 15 minutes of the earthquake too. Pretty much everything 10-20 miles in is gone too, which is a lot of people and property.
Why mention the subduction zone? Well, there's been more recent evidence that earthquakes cause far reaching effects with volcanoes, and Yellowstone specifically. Since I live in WA, just south of St Helens, it makes me nervous to think that scientists think that the Tsunami and Yellowstone are real threats that will happen within the next 100, 150 years. It'll pretty much smite America, and WA and OR won't be in shape to take care of themselves. The likely global war over food or alternative collapse of society help the story I'm writing, but are kind of bleak potential futures we have waiting for us soon.
Although rather than add new classes (which always makes class balance harder) I wish they'd fix the existing major realm population and effectiveness balances
Not in this case. Every Race is supposed to have a melee DPS, tank, ranged DPS, and support/healer. Currently Dwarves and Greenskins don't have their melee DPS. Was pretty bad for Empire and Dark Elves since they didn't have their tanks until a few months ago. The game is balanced around each side being able to have these kinds of roles, and for a new game its balanced pretty well.
A lot of players don't realize what is happening in combat so they cry out that a specific class is overpowered. They're wrong, but even when you show them statistics from combat logs going over a month they don't listen. There WERE some major balance issues/bugs in combat regarding specific abilities.
The Bright Wizard/Sorcerer classes were doing too much damage off of criticals from their dots, all the RDPS classes had a bug with their player based AOE root that caused it not to break properly were the two biggest ones. They fixed that in a patch and while the BW/Sorc does more damage in the long haul, their spiking was nerfed a bit so now 3 of them working in tandem can't waste a team of 12 people on their own.
Honestly though, the PVE is fun and fair, the Open RVR is getting performance improvements and extra rewards, and RvR in general is balanced between the two sides (there is a mirror of every class and while they don't work identical, they are pretty close in what their skills actually do) and every class has a counter-class. The key is organization and on 4/5 servers I've been on Order is more organized and more willing to help their fellow players while Destruction is full of self serving wankers. At least it keeps the RvR games interesting.
I wish they'd fix the existing major realm population and effectiveness balances
They are. They keep moving server populations on a monthly/weekly basis. The populations in total are pretty damn close, especially on the larger servers like Badlands or Dark Crag. This varies depending on the time of day, but not by much. Really its kind of sad. Mythic has this great game here that seems very well made but people aren't behaving how they assumed. They thought people would want to play the game, but so many people are looking for instant reward situations like in Guild Wars.
At least as of November, Destruction far outpopulated Order on nearly every server to a great deal because their classes simply had an edge... I made it to rank 15 or so before I got tired of Order getting constantly slaughtered in scenarios.
Um, no. Destruction is typically a higher population than Order because far more players want to be "evil" or an Orc. Having been in the closed beta, played both Destruction and Order, and played on Core and Open RvR servers I can tell you the Destruction has the numbers, but Order has the players. The maturity level is vastly different, with far more of the bitchy self-serving 13 year olds rolling a Chaos Chosen or a Dark Elf Sorceress/Wytch. Also, the Order players work together and are far more organized than the Destruction players. Again it goes back to the maturity level, most Destruction players want to be the hero rather than just accomplish a goal.
Made me rather sad actually. I've never liked the Order armies in tabletop Warhammer. I like my Greenskins a bit too much. But you can't work with people who think Guilds have to be huge (they don't in WAR) and that they don't need to use tactics/strategy to win. They spend most of their time bitching or trying to "get kills" rather than take out the enemy team. There's a great game there for organized PvP/RvR but its being wasted currently.
I imagine that Mythic will have paid expansions out as they add other races. They get the whole Warhammer universe to play with. There have been 18 different armies in th
No one really likes DRM however there is little effort on the Anti-DRM Camp to come up with a solution that fixes the companies problem, of illegal piracy, or sharing a copy with your friends.
Game companies already had a solution for the "problem" of people sharing a copy they own. Blizzard's "Spwaned Copies" were freaking amazing. Honestly though, how is sharing a copy of a game you own a problem? You lend people books don't you? Or movies? What about movie/video game rental stores like Blockbuster or Hollywood Video? In short, explain how its a problem or there isn't one.
Also, why do the people that are against DRM get saddled with finding a "solution" to piracy? EverysingleDRMschemehas been an failure and damaging to the consumer to the point that some people feel morally obliged not to buy the games anymore from those companies. Better still, these DRM schemes do nothing but encourage you to pirate the game since the pirated version doesn't have the DRM!
DRM is not working. This is very fucking obvious. Until they figure out something else to try, they should go back to only having the CD-KEY (which doesn't stop people from pirating in any way whatsoever, but makes it easier in multiplayer games to ban disruptive players. EA already is under a Class Action lawsuit due to the DRM in Spore before it moved to Steam. How many more game companies are going to have to be attacked legally by their own fans to get them to stop ripping us off?
Oh and before you bitch I have a link to Steam in with the failures, remember that the Steam DRM does get cracked on occasion. They just patch and ban accounts. Will not stop players from doing it for single player or LAN games (and it takes no real effort) but as a DRM system it still fails at its task. On the plus side at least its largely bearable.
One, that's naive. Two, the whole point to DRM is to prevent you from doing that. It doesn't work very well, but that's the point. So on principal I can't fault his logic all that much. He can either pirate so he can continue to use his DVD player he bought so he could legally buy movies, or stop buying them at all. Either way they've shafted him and it doesn't actually cost them anything either way since they're not going to get any money until they ditch the DRM.
I suppose he knows the "tech industry" or what have you better than other possible choices. I just have this feeling that having the former CEO of a proprietary software company in charge of looking into the feasibility of going open source might not be as good an idea.
I mean, the guy is capable but is he willing? Several nations are going nuts with open source now since it puts them in control of their own systems and even fits their philosophical ideas (power to the people, etc) better than going Windows. So we know its possible and seems to be working out okay where it has been done. Why do I have a feeling whomever we do get for Secretary of Commerce is going to say we should stick with Windows for the OS, Symantec for the AV, and MS Office for our primary apps?
At least in the case of Batman there are multiple incarnations of it already so it makes some sense. Aside from the two Batman Movies with Michale Keaton, the style wasn't really that dark gothic many fans enjoy. This time around they're going the Dark Knight approach, which is a version of Batman I very much enjoy.
Have to say I loved Batman: The Animated Series more than most though. Watched that as a kid and going back and watching it now, its a lot darker than I remember and pretty good actually.
Oh come off it. Sure both are about a gang of thieves and a jewelery heist with an undercover cop, just like Cloverfield and Godzilla are just movies of a town getting destroyed. If you've watched both Reservoir Dogs and City on Fire you won't come close to confusing the two. The way the stories are told are completely different and an important part of why the film is good.
Some scenes are pretty much the same as well in the movies, just like the car chase at the end of Death Proof was straight out of Vanishing Point. Not really a knock off, but you can see where it came from. Tarrantino isn't alone in doing that either.
Chances are there wouldn't be very many issues. One you don't NEED as many nuclear power plants as you do coal plants. Two the air pollution is non-existent. You just have to worry about the radioactive waste, which can be partially recycled (believe they're called "reprocessor" plants). Chernobyl was the only real bad accident. 3 Mile Island was actually a success, nothing bad happened. Plenty of fear but that's becoming the status quo unfortunately. France has been using nuclear power without incident for decades now.
Really, its just a matter of getting people out from under the covers and actually learning about the differences between nuclear and coal power. Only issue is the level of apathy most people have these days (and not just in the US).
That's pretty much a myth. Vista is just as stable if you turn off certain things (and leave others on!) rather than just add things to Server 2008. Plus unless they changed something DirectX is kind of a pain to get on a Windows Server OS so I don't think you can even get Aero on there.
I've actually been pretty pleased with Vista overall. I have a hardware issue with my motherboard that hits me every two weeks or so (blue screen, wiped CMOS settings, freaks out that I don't have a floppy drive) and I've had a few issues with some games (Mass Effect occasionally breaks and you have to load an older save and do something different or else you can't finish the game) but very little issues with the actual OS.
The one exception is the Game Explorer which just explodes now about 70% of the time. Too many games I suppose. Was neat while it worked but that's been a while.
In our defense, I don't think you should legislate morals. But that's all I can say I agree with. Removing a requirement to register your copyright, and mandatory copyright notices aren't a great idea IMO. Please note though, that in the case of TRIPS it wasn't just the US. Corporations generally don't belong to a country but will have a lobbying presence in many. Many EU nations and Japan are just as much to blame for TRIPS as the US and arguing otherwise just shows how biased you are.
I'm curious where you get somatic cells. I haven't really been paying attention to biology for the last few years to be honest. I thought somatic cells were ones that grow into other cells. Don't you get those from umbilical cords like stem cells?
I know for when they cloned Dolly and Snuppy it was somatic cells but yea. I think I'm confusing the two a bit.
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Except in computers. KB does mean Kilobyte in both SI and computer science, but it is NOT SI IN COMPUTER SCIENCE. A side affect of counting in binary and everyone is going to just have to live with it.
Settlements are allowed for good reason. Otherwise there would be an awful lot more SCO like attempts as a means of damaging an opponent. If they can't "settle" to just get you to go away you end up draining them constantly (and of course yourself but still, you might win). But Settlements are not Legal Precedence.
Yes. Essentially, if governments would stay out of it and let the scientists and inventors figure out what is going on there's a good chance it could be fixed. Possibly multiple solutions could be found. It's like open sourcing the problem. The government involvement involves a proprietary approach deadlocked on one belief. A government can't afford an open mind. It has to have one thing for it to get behind, and there may be multiple and contradicting issues that are contributing to global warming.
Even the UN just tries to go for the "one cause" and ignores other contributing factors. I doubt it'd be any better if all of humanity were one nation either. The government would still be thinking too small.
Fry's is *only* good in California. The one up here in Oregon is a complete and total rip off if you aren't buying a pre-built system or something harmless such as a computer case. If you want computer components or the like you're going to get ripped off. They put refurbishedd components on the shelf and don't label them as they are supposed to. Three of my friends, myself, two classmates and three co-workers of mine have all had the same experience. Pretty much if you want something right away its Best Buy or Fred Meyers otherwise you wait for the mail.
You've apparently never used it. The only negative thing about the Zune is the car hookups. You're shafted with an FM transmitter or using an AUX jack. The menu system is far better in my opinion (flipping through by Album cover is nice) and its got a built in radio incase the 80 GB of Video/Audio you can have on it isn't entertaining enough for you.
And it plays most music (I'm not sure if Ogg or FLAC works on it, haven't tried) just like the iPod.
They wanted to make sure the content (the Judge's address) was *not* posted. So yea. You take both servers so that the stuff is offline and they can find the guy. UK law which I'm sketchy on, but several laws were broken because of the comment to one of the articles on the site. It sucks the site has to pay for it in this manner, but this is a very real threat in this instance. The group mentioned is well known over there.
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FYI, VTEC isn't really the same as a turbo charger. While it does give you more power when you need it, the real benefit is making the ride smoother at higher speeds by lowering the RPMs needed to maintain the speed. See here for a short video on it.
It'll suck when Yellowstone blows. Pretty much everyone in Montana, Idaho, the western half of Washington and Oregon, North East Nevada, Wyoming, and North West Colorado is dead inside a week just from the dust cloud. Let's not forget to mention the people within the rather large blast zone that will die during the eruption itself. 7 months or so down the way, the world is in volcanic winter and the average temperature drops about 15 degrees Celsius.
Even better, the overdue earthquake in the Cascadia Subduction Zone is expected to be greater than 9.0 It'll cause a tsunami to hit the western seaboard of the US and Canada, from British Columbia down to the northern half of California. It hits the coast at over 700 feet within 15 minutes of the earthquake too. Pretty much everything 10-20 miles in is gone too, which is a lot of people and property.
Why mention the subduction zone? Well, there's been more recent evidence that earthquakes cause far reaching effects with volcanoes, and Yellowstone specifically. Since I live in WA, just south of St Helens, it makes me nervous to think that scientists think that the Tsunami and Yellowstone are real threats that will happen within the next 100, 150 years. It'll pretty much smite America, and WA and OR won't be in shape to take care of themselves. The likely global war over food or alternative collapse of society help the story I'm writing, but are kind of bleak potential futures we have waiting for us soon.
Although rather than add new classes (which always makes class balance harder) I wish they'd fix the existing major realm population and effectiveness balances
Not in this case. Every Race is supposed to have a melee DPS, tank, ranged DPS, and support/healer. Currently Dwarves and Greenskins don't have their melee DPS. Was pretty bad for Empire and Dark Elves since they didn't have their tanks until a few months ago. The game is balanced around each side being able to have these kinds of roles, and for a new game its balanced pretty well.
A lot of players don't realize what is happening in combat so they cry out that a specific class is overpowered. They're wrong, but even when you show them statistics from combat logs going over a month they don't listen. There WERE some major balance issues/bugs in combat regarding specific abilities.
The Bright Wizard/Sorcerer classes were doing too much damage off of criticals from their dots, all the RDPS classes had a bug with their player based AOE root that caused it not to break properly were the two biggest ones. They fixed that in a patch and while the BW/Sorc does more damage in the long haul, their spiking was nerfed a bit so now 3 of them working in tandem can't waste a team of 12 people on their own.
Honestly though, the PVE is fun and fair, the Open RVR is getting performance improvements and extra rewards, and RvR in general is balanced between the two sides (there is a mirror of every class and while they don't work identical, they are pretty close in what their skills actually do) and every class has a counter-class. The key is organization and on 4/5 servers I've been on Order is more organized and more willing to help their fellow players while Destruction is full of self serving wankers. At least it keeps the RvR games interesting.
I wish they'd fix the existing major realm population and effectiveness balances
They are. They keep moving server populations on a monthly/weekly basis. The populations in total are pretty damn close, especially on the larger servers like Badlands or Dark Crag. This varies depending on the time of day, but not by much. Really its kind of sad. Mythic has this great game here that seems very well made but people aren't behaving how they assumed. They thought people would want to play the game, but so many people are looking for instant reward situations like in Guild Wars.
At least as of November, Destruction far outpopulated Order on nearly every server to a great deal because their classes simply had an edge... I made it to rank 15 or so before I got tired of Order getting constantly slaughtered in scenarios.
Um, no. Destruction is typically a higher population than Order because far more players want to be "evil" or an Orc. Having been in the closed beta, played both Destruction and Order, and played on Core and Open RvR servers I can tell you the Destruction has the numbers, but Order has the players. The maturity level is vastly different, with far more of the bitchy self-serving 13 year olds rolling a Chaos Chosen or a Dark Elf Sorceress/Wytch. Also, the Order players work together and are far more organized than the Destruction players. Again it goes back to the maturity level, most Destruction players want to be the hero rather than just accomplish a goal.
Made me rather sad actually. I've never liked the Order armies in tabletop Warhammer. I like my Greenskins a bit too much. But you can't work with people who think Guilds have to be huge (they don't in WAR) and that they don't need to use tactics/strategy to win. They spend most of their time bitching or trying to "get kills" rather than take out the enemy team. There's a great game there for organized PvP/RvR but its being wasted currently.
I imagine that Mythic will have paid expansions out as they add other races. They get the whole Warhammer universe to play with. There have been 18 different armies in th
No one really likes DRM however there is little effort on the Anti-DRM Camp to come up with a solution that fixes the companies problem, of illegal piracy, or sharing a copy with your friends.
Game companies already had a solution for the "problem" of people sharing a copy they own. Blizzard's "Spwaned Copies" were freaking amazing. Honestly though, how is sharing a copy of a game you own a problem? You lend people books don't you? Or movies? What about movie/video game rental stores like Blockbuster or Hollywood Video? In short, explain how its a problem or there isn't one.
Also, why do the people that are against DRM get saddled with finding a "solution" to piracy? Every single DRM scheme has been an failure and damaging to the consumer to the point that some people feel morally obliged not to buy the games anymore from those companies. Better still, these DRM schemes do nothing but encourage you to pirate the game since the pirated version doesn't have the DRM!
DRM is not working. This is very fucking obvious. Until they figure out something else to try, they should go back to only having the CD-KEY (which doesn't stop people from pirating in any way whatsoever, but makes it easier in multiplayer games to ban disruptive players. EA already is under a Class Action lawsuit due to the DRM in Spore before it moved to Steam. How many more game companies are going to have to be attacked legally by their own fans to get them to stop ripping us off?
Oh and before you bitch I have a link to Steam in with the failures, remember that the Steam DRM does get cracked on occasion. They just patch and ban accounts. Will not stop players from doing it for single player or LAN games (and it takes no real effort) but as a DRM system it still fails at its task. On the plus side at least its largely bearable.
Poetic but not very accurate.
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Ah, I see.
One, that's naive. Two, the whole point to DRM is to prevent you from doing that. It doesn't work very well, but that's the point. So on principal I can't fault his logic all that much. He can either pirate so he can continue to use his DVD player he bought so he could legally buy movies, or stop buying them at all. Either way they've shafted him and it doesn't actually cost them anything either way since they're not going to get any money until they ditch the DRM.
Cause that's where the non-professional journalist / not-even-amateur blogger submitter got the story. Duh. Easiest answers are usually the best.
He doesn't mean the original being "attached" to the bottom of the reply.
I suppose he knows the "tech industry" or what have you better than other possible choices. I just have this feeling that having the former CEO of a proprietary software company in charge of looking into the feasibility of going open source might not be as good an idea.
I mean, the guy is capable but is he willing? Several nations are going nuts with open source now since it puts them in control of their own systems and even fits their philosophical ideas (power to the people, etc) better than going Windows. So we know its possible and seems to be working out okay where it has been done. Why do I have a feeling whomever we do get for Secretary of Commerce is going to say we should stick with Windows for the OS, Symantec for the AV, and MS Office for our primary apps?
At least in the case of Batman there are multiple incarnations of it already so it makes some sense. Aside from the two Batman Movies with Michale Keaton, the style wasn't really that dark gothic many fans enjoy. This time around they're going the Dark Knight approach, which is a version of Batman I very much enjoy.
Have to say I loved Batman: The Animated Series more than most though. Watched that as a kid and going back and watching it now, its a lot darker than I remember and pretty good actually.
Oh come off it. Sure both are about a gang of thieves and a jewelery heist with an undercover cop, just like Cloverfield and Godzilla are just movies of a town getting destroyed. If you've watched both Reservoir Dogs and City on Fire you won't come close to confusing the two. The way the stories are told are completely different and an important part of why the film is good.
Some scenes are pretty much the same as well in the movies, just like the car chase at the end of Death Proof was straight out of Vanishing Point. Not really a knock off, but you can see where it came from. Tarrantino isn't alone in doing that either.
Oh just go away. It's Monty Python, not Andromeda.
Fanbois...
Chances are there wouldn't be very many issues. One you don't NEED as many nuclear power plants as you do coal plants. Two the air pollution is non-existent. You just have to worry about the radioactive waste, which can be partially recycled (believe they're called "reprocessor" plants). Chernobyl was the only real bad accident. 3 Mile Island was actually a success, nothing bad happened. Plenty of fear but that's becoming the status quo unfortunately. France has been using nuclear power without incident for decades now.
Really, its just a matter of getting people out from under the covers and actually learning about the differences between nuclear and coal power. Only issue is the level of apathy most people have these days (and not just in the US).
That's pretty much a myth. Vista is just as stable if you turn off certain things (and leave others on!) rather than just add things to Server 2008. Plus unless they changed something DirectX is kind of a pain to get on a Windows Server OS so I don't think you can even get Aero on there.
I've actually been pretty pleased with Vista overall. I have a hardware issue with my motherboard that hits me every two weeks or so (blue screen, wiped CMOS settings, freaks out that I don't have a floppy drive) and I've had a few issues with some games (Mass Effect occasionally breaks and you have to load an older save and do something different or else you can't finish the game) but very little issues with the actual OS.
The one exception is the Game Explorer which just explodes now about 70% of the time. Too many games I suppose. Was neat while it worked but that's been a while.
In our defense, I don't think you should legislate morals. But that's all I can say I agree with. Removing a requirement to register your copyright, and mandatory copyright notices aren't a great idea IMO. Please note though, that in the case of TRIPS it wasn't just the US. Corporations generally don't belong to a country but will have a lobbying presence in many. Many EU nations and Japan are just as much to blame for TRIPS as the US and arguing otherwise just shows how biased you are.
I'm curious where you get somatic cells. I haven't really been paying attention to biology for the last few years to be honest. I thought somatic cells were ones that grow into other cells. Don't you get those from umbilical cords like stem cells?
I know for when they cloned Dolly and Snuppy it was somatic cells but yea. I think I'm confusing the two a bit.
First, buy their product. Otherwise you have no grounds to sue. (IANAL except occasionally on Friday nights)
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Except in computers. KB does mean Kilobyte in both SI and computer science, but it is NOT SI IN COMPUTER SCIENCE. A side affect of counting in binary and everyone is going to just have to live with it.
Legal != Just
Settlements are allowed for good reason. Otherwise there would be an awful lot more SCO like attempts as a means of damaging an opponent. If they can't "settle" to just get you to go away you end up draining them constantly (and of course yourself but still, you might win). But Settlements are not Legal Precedence.
Yes. Essentially, if governments would stay out of it and let the scientists and inventors figure out what is going on there's a good chance it could be fixed. Possibly multiple solutions could be found. It's like open sourcing the problem. The government involvement involves a proprietary approach deadlocked on one belief. A government can't afford an open mind. It has to have one thing for it to get behind, and there may be multiple and contradicting issues that are contributing to global warming.
Even the UN just tries to go for the "one cause" and ignores other contributing factors. I doubt it'd be any better if all of humanity were one nation either. The government would still be thinking too small.
No, he didn't.
Fry's is *only* good in California. The one up here in Oregon is a complete and total rip off if you aren't buying a pre-built system or something harmless such as a computer case. If you want computer components or the like you're going to get ripped off. They put refurbishedd components on the shelf and don't label them as they are supposed to. Three of my friends, myself, two classmates and three co-workers of mine have all had the same experience. Pretty much if you want something right away its Best Buy or Fred Meyers otherwise you wait for the mail.
You've apparently never used it. The only negative thing about the Zune is the car hookups. You're shafted with an FM transmitter or using an AUX jack. The menu system is far better in my opinion (flipping through by Album cover is nice) and its got a built in radio incase the 80 GB of Video/Audio you can have on it isn't entertaining enough for you.
And it plays most music (I'm not sure if Ogg or FLAC works on it, haven't tried) just like the iPod.
But I guess its not trendy enough for you...
They wanted to make sure the content (the Judge's address) was *not* posted. So yea. You take both servers so that the stuff is offline and they can find the guy. UK law which I'm sketchy on, but several laws were broken because of the comment to one of the articles on the site. It sucks the site has to pay for it in this manner, but this is a very real threat in this instance. The group mentioned is well known over there.