The EULA doesn't claim personal data as their property. In fact, they go to great lengths in their documentation to say that they are not collecting personal information!
Quake II had tons of replay value during its day and it was an easy game.
If you can beat the entire game with the weakest weapon (laser pistol, in Quake II), it's easy. That very thing did make the game pretty damn tough, though.
I believe you have confused the Open Source Definition, based on the Free Software Definition. Commercial Development is not restricted. Free development is still allowed (Hint: free does not refer to price, but rather freedom).
Well, LOTR had gold sellers in beta, 2moons has a nasty problem with them right now. (Crappy game anyway. The visual style is Final Fantasy-esque sans any sort of character customization)
OK, Mr. Anonymous guy, I am a language major and feel obliged to point out a few items to assist in your instruction of a person that was simply providing technical information on an informal site.
First, "utilize" is almost never an ok word. Try substituting "use."
'Utilize' is nearly as useful as 'use.' It means 'to make use of' (for most applications, anyway). It is also valid in this context, as 'utilize' is mostly used in technical applications.
Second, you are utilizing/using a gerund. Verb the gerund and you can throw away a useless word.
Also, if you are so worried about how other people write, then perhaps you should be more careful of "verbing" a noun.
Third, change "on upwords of 50" can turn into "dozens of" and you've got a nice sentence.
This was a poorly constructed sentence; however, I'll simply focus on the meaning, leaving the correction of the structure to others.
If he were to change anything in this, he wouldn't make the change you suggest, as dozens can simply refer to 24+. I believe that his intent was to use the number 50. I would simply have said 'more than' instead of 'upwards of.'
Now, if you wish to post poor corrections, log in. That way we can see who to mod down when we have points.
Hah, and I was about to launch into a discussion of intersecting lines not truly comprising a 2D border. I can see why you might not want to break into that kind of discussion, opting for a quick 'n' simple word instead. I did it too;D
Not even M-W, which is a linguistic whore of a dictionary has that word. What dictionary admits unregardless to the English language?
As much as I dislike the word 'irregardless' I will acknowledge it as an old colloquialism.
Even if it were a word, it should mean the opposite of 'without regard.' This means that you used the word to link that sentence to the previous sentence, rather than indicating a change in subject. I would probably have said 'Either way, Mass Effect looks to be amazing!
Ah, I assumed you were referring to forehand documentation, which is often used to accomplish what you described.
Visual checks, then? Once again, something that is not truly necessary and also a potential distraction. If you just walk by cubicles and see what's going on, it may not be so bad, but for me, even someone regularly walking around behind me is distracting. I work my best and fastest when no one is obviously checking up on me. Maybe if you had a discreet system to check up on people?
How would you check on someone that you had working for you off-site? Management can be done in many ways, and not all of them require a warm body in the office. Personally, I work better when I am not at home - too many distractions. I also work best outside of an office. I work best at libraries and cafes. I don't have to deal with co-workers and managers bothering be about insignificant things or about things they should know to complete their duties already (not to mention all the gossip that goes on in most workplaces).
I finally got moved to my own office and was given voice recognition software, so now I can wander around my office, with document in hand, and translate without any outside annoyance.
Now I need to figure out a way to get some english language package for the same software, so I can post my replies hands-free! (joking - that would be a true waste of company resources)
if your projects are getting done, they don't really care how you're archiving that.
There has to be an overall look at where time is being spent, and some care to make sure employees are not spending excessive amounts of time "relaxing".
Although the grandparent made a mistake with word choice (archiving), I can forgive it in light of a flawed statement like this.
How do you determine that a person is spending their "non-work" time in the right place? Some people, to use your coding example, can formulate a structure in their head with no visible signs of actual work and, if they do it this way, can execute the transcription of code better than if they had taken notes/outlined what they were about to do.
Why? They just work that way. Why would you chance having good work made poorer by requiring forehand documentation (the only true way to ensure that they aren't wasting time). After all, you can't accurately determine how much time someone is surfing wastefully based on how long a browser window has been up or how long it takes between hyper-link jumps.
The average IQ is 100 at all times. Remember, IQ is a measurement of learning aptitude, as opposed to knowledge (to emphasize this point, various groups have developed aptitude tests to administer to people that don't have a classical American education).
You feel that science doesn't need to be fun, believing, rather, that relevance is all that is necessary.
I think you forget why people choose to take the science route in the first place. Science is supposed to be fun! I can think of no reason for learning all these equations and relationships if I wasn't granted a degree of understanding and functionality within the world. I delight in science and engineering fields. The world would be very dull without them.
I'm not familiar with the politics of the UK, in general, but it is clear with this quote:
As for the Scots - they're an insular people with a massive chip on their shoulder, they've exported their politicians to England to fuck up the English system and gain independence through irritation and annoyance.
that you have a massive chip on your shoulder that amounts to cultural disonance most likely derived from a type of ethnocentrism.
I made my own campaign setting for the games that I DM. It is a low magic setting in which magic classes must be unlocked (they are prestige classes with a richer magic system that relies on player imagination)through in-depth study(wizard), natural aptitude for magic(sorceror) or a deep connection with the land (druid). My setting encourages at least as much interaction as good ol' hack'n'slash and a fair amount of subplot intrigue.
A campaign setting is what you make of it, though I wish those settings were less well fleshed out, as they'd be much more useful as a general idea.
This is what I am guessing will be the case, but with the heavy use of DR to which they allude, they could give a static HD for all and have armor take care of the hitpoint to output ratio by tweaking DR.
I believe that is why the talk function exists. In most cases, writing an informative piece about an organization with which you are affiliated is looked upon as potentially disingenuous.
Besides, how do we know those people are really knowledgeable about what is going on in their company, even if they *are* in it? I know some people that work for other organizations that are clearly drinking way too much of the corporate kool-aid and should under no circumstances be allowed to edit a wiki on their company.
The best persona for such a job may be a consultant or industry analyst that has actually done some work consulting with the company or has spent a good deal of time studying them.
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The EULA doesn't claim personal data as their property. In fact, they go to great lengths in their documentation to say that they are not collecting personal information!
Pretty broad, that is.
Undermine - I'm ok with using definition 3, but definition 4...?
Quake II had tons of replay value during its day and it was an easy game.
If you can beat the entire game with the weakest weapon (laser pistol, in Quake II), it's easy. That very thing did make the game pretty damn tough, though.
I believe you have confused the Open Source Definition, based on the Free Software Definition. Commercial Development is not restricted. Free development is still allowed (Hint: free does not refer to price, but rather freedom).
Not sure what you mean by poof, but either way, I didn't recall seeing gold sellers in WoW beta.
Well, LOTR had gold sellers in beta, 2moons has a nasty problem with them right now. (Crappy game anyway. The visual style is Final Fantasy-esque sans any sort of character customization)
Choose any two and you might get somewhere with it.
Personally, I'd want to leave the first and second options in there.
your lack of faith...disturbing. /obligquote
Simply posting that shows that you missed the point of my post, whoever you are.
Hah, and I was about to launch into a discussion of intersecting lines not truly comprising a 2D border. I can see why you might not want to break into that kind of discussion, opting for a quick 'n' simple word instead. I did it too ;D
2D borders are indeed lines, while 3D borders are planes, not surfaces.
Ah, I assumed you were referring to forehand documentation, which is often used to accomplish what you described.
Visual checks, then? Once again, something that is not truly necessary and also a potential distraction. If you just walk by cubicles and see what's going on, it may not be so bad, but for me, even someone regularly walking around behind me is distracting. I work my best and fastest when no one is obviously checking up on me. Maybe if you had a discreet system to check up on people?
How would you check on someone that you had working for you off-site? Management can be done in many ways, and not all of them require a warm body in the office. Personally, I work better when I am not at home - too many distractions. I also work best outside of an office. I work best at libraries and cafes. I don't have to deal with co-workers and managers bothering be about insignificant things or about things they should know to complete their duties already (not to mention all the gossip that goes on in most workplaces).
I finally got moved to my own office and was given voice recognition software, so now I can wander around my office, with document in hand, and translate without any outside annoyance.
Now I need to figure out a way to get some english language package for the same software, so I can post my replies hands-free! (joking - that would be a true waste of company resources)
Although the grandparent made a mistake with word choice (archiving), I can forgive it in light of a flawed statement like this.
How do you determine that a person is spending their "non-work" time in the right place? Some people, to use your coding example, can formulate a structure in their head with no visible signs of actual work and, if they do it this way, can execute the transcription of code better than if they had taken notes/outlined what they were about to do.
Why? They just work that way. Why would you chance having good work made poorer by requiring forehand documentation (the only true way to ensure that they aren't wasting time). After all, you can't accurately determine how much time someone is surfing wastefully based on how long a browser window has been up or how long it takes between hyper-link jumps.
The average IQ is 100 at all times. Remember, IQ is a measurement of learning aptitude, as opposed to knowledge (to emphasize this point, various groups have developed aptitude tests to administer to people that don't have a classical American education).
You feel that science doesn't need to be fun, believing, rather, that relevance is all that is necessary.
I think you forget why people choose to take the science route in the first place. Science is supposed to be fun! I can think of no reason for learning all these equations and relationships if I wasn't granted a degree of understanding and functionality within the world. I delight in science and engineering fields. The world would be very dull without them.
that you have a massive chip on your shoulder that amounts to cultural disonance most likely derived from a type of ethnocentrism.
I think you didn't get him. Either that or you need to define the sources of your "different" gamma rays at the same energy.
I made my own campaign setting for the games that I DM. It is a low magic setting in which magic classes must be unlocked (they are prestige classes with a richer magic system that relies on player imagination)through in-depth study(wizard), natural aptitude for magic(sorceror) or a deep connection with the land (druid). My setting encourages at least as much interaction as good ol' hack'n'slash and a fair amount of subplot intrigue. A campaign setting is what you make of it, though I wish those settings were less well fleshed out, as they'd be much more useful as a general idea.
This is what I am guessing will be the case, but with the heavy use of DR to which they allude, they could give a static HD for all and have armor take care of the hitpoint to output ratio by tweaking DR.
The heavy instancing still makes it somewhat less enjoyable, although it does give you the tabletop party feel.
I am going to have to design something like this now. Damn you!
I believe that is why the talk function exists. In most cases, writing an informative piece about an organization with which you are affiliated is looked upon as potentially disingenuous.
Besides, how do we know those people are really knowledgeable about what is going on in their company, even if they *are* in it? I know some people that work for other organizations that are clearly drinking way too much of the corporate kool-aid and should under no circumstances be allowed to edit a wiki on their company.
The best persona for such a job may be a consultant or industry analyst that has actually done some work consulting with the company or has spent a good deal of time studying them.