Comment Re:Go for it (Score 2) 241
That was the estimated cost in 1974. Adjusted for inflation, its closer to 100B. So yeah, cheap.
Comment Re:so? (Score 1) 209
where 2,840,184.000 should be 2,840,184,000 (oops)
Comment Re:so? (Score 3, Informative) 209
There's 7.7 billion people on this planet and only ~1.8 billion seconds in a 90-year lifespan.
Even if you tried to care about every single person, 1 second for 1 person, your life would run out by the time you hit 1.8 billion if you are lucky to hit 90.
Kind of a pointless venture.
That's why i find these groups who represent an entire gender or race moronic. You don't even have the basic math education to realize you don't have the lifespan to represent them all for 1 second each, yet you are pulling this shit? Get the fuck outta here.
Agree with your logic, but not your math:
90 * 365.25 * 24 * 60 * 60 = 2,840,184.000
so more like 2.8 billion seconds
Comment Re:Aphelion vs Parhelion (Score 1) 50
Technically Aphelion and Perihelion refer to distance from the Sun for Sun-Orbiting bodies. I'm not sure what the term for min/max orbital distance for Mars orbits would be. Since greek for Mars is Ares, maybe aparion and periarion ?
Comment Artifical Spaceship. (Score 5, Insightful) 272
Dunno. I think a real spaceship might be more practical.
EA Flip-Flops On Battlefield: Heroes Pricing, Fans Angry 221
An anonymous reader writes "Ben Kuchera from Ars Technica is reporting that EA/DICE has substantially changed the game model of Battlefield: Heroes, increasing the cost of weapons in Valor Points (the in-game currency that you earn by playing) to levels that even hardcore players cannot afford, and making them available in BattleFunds (the in-game currency that you buy with real money). Other consumables in the game, such as bandages to heal the players, suffered the same fate, turning the game into a subscription or pay-to-play model if players want to remain competitive. This goes against the creators' earlier stated objectives of not providing combat advantage to paying customers. Ben Cousins, from EA/DICE, argued, 'We also frankly wanted to make buying Battlefunds more appealing. We have wages to pay here in the Heroes team and in order to keep a team large enough to make new free content like maps and other game features we need to increase the amount of BF that people buy. Battlefield Heroes is a business at the end of the day and for a company like EA who recently laid off 16% of their workforce, we need to keep an eye on the accounts and make sure we are doing our bit for the company.' The official forums discussion thread is full of angry responses from upset users, who feel this change is a betrayal of the original stated objectives of the game."
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