I congratulate you for the immense work you must have put in to achieve such an astounding level of ignorance. Of course businesses have privacy concerns! That's why big corps will pay a shitload of money to really good IT people to keep their systems secure, instead of relying on the honesty unknown people at some other company over which they have no (or little, at least) control. The best way for them to mitigate the risk of liability would be to keep all that data off the freaking Internet, and on their own systems.
i personally don't like mmo's because there is no room for human failure
[emphasis mine] Sure, there is room for failure. It takes some pretty impressive stupidity or huge brain farts to fail massively, but it can happen. Not paying close enough attention to the damage you're taking, run out of spell/mana points as a caster, in a tight place, etc. Of course, it could be argued that even "dieing" in a game isn't much of a failure since you're usually just resurrected with minimal penalty.
That sounds incredibly complicated from an IRL perspective, if it creates a new character: who owns it? The (person who plays the) mother or father? I imagine the mother makes more sense, since that person has to do a bit more work in-game, but then if there's no multiplaying allowed (I would hope), the child could never see its mother. Yeah... I don't think I'll be adding that feature to my MUD.
If it takes 30 tries to carry a child to term in game
Seriously? Code-controlled childbirth in a MUD? Now I _HAVE_ heard of every damned stupid idea no one should have ever come up with. Though I do appreciate that at least there's still some novelty in the MUDverse. I still play just about every day too.
I was thinking something like that while reading. I recall a/. story remarking that stupid people don't realize how stupid they are and, in fact, think they are quite brilliant, and rate themselves thusly. Conversely, very intelligent people realize there is so much they don't know, and rate themselves lower than the morons rate themselves.
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Brilliant: quick, to the Patent Office!
True. I discovered my neighbor's place the other day, but for some reason the police had issue with my attempts to resettle his family.
You think that's impressive, Schroedinger trained his cat to get in a box and stop existing!
He says so in the summary.
I congratulate you for the immense work you must have put in to achieve such an astounding level of ignorance. Of course businesses have privacy concerns! That's why big corps will pay a shitload of money to really good IT people to keep their systems secure, instead of relying on the honesty unknown people at some other company over which they have no (or little, at least) control. The best way for them to mitigate the risk of liability would be to keep all that data off the freaking Internet, and on their own systems.
i personally don't like mmo's because there is no room for human failure
[emphasis mine]
Sure, there is room for failure. It takes some pretty impressive stupidity or huge brain farts to fail massively, but it can happen. Not paying close enough attention to the damage you're taking, run out of spell/mana points as a caster, in a tight place, etc. Of course, it could be argued that even "dieing" in a game isn't much of a failure since you're usually just resurrected with minimal penalty.
In a skill based game (fighting, FTP)
Oh, I am bad-ass at FTP. I send those files like a MAD MAN. WOO HA!
Thanks for that description. As a long-time MUD player (and only ROM/Circle), I never understood how skill-based games worked.
That sounds incredibly complicated from an IRL perspective, if it creates a new character: who owns it? The (person who plays the) mother or father? I imagine the mother makes more sense, since that person has to do a bit more work in-game, but then if there's no multiplaying allowed (I would hope), the child could never see its mother. Yeah... I don't think I'll be adding that feature to my MUD.
entities like the FDA that make sure the food I eat is most likely safe
You have a very loose definition of the word "safe"... which is not to say I want the aforementioned "nanny state" either.
If he was truly roleplaying he would actually care what the player base's culture was.
So you're saying that it's impossible to roleplay the part of "antisocial asshole?"
Do you actually have to accept some customs and rules set by the players to join?
According to the research, no... that is kinda the whole point of the story here.
If it takes 30 tries to carry a child to term in game
Seriously? Code-controlled childbirth in a MUD? Now I _HAVE_ heard of every damned stupid idea no one should have ever come up with. Though I do appreciate that at least there's still some novelty in the MUDverse. I still play just about every day too.
I think you just explained where politicians come from...
I recall similar jokes in that article's comments :)
the corporate ass-covering lawyers would have got there first.
Actually, they already were... they are a prime reason why such stupid rules exist.
I was thinking something like that while reading. I recall a /. story remarking that stupid people don't realize how stupid they are and, in fact, think they are quite brilliant, and rate themselves thusly. Conversely, very intelligent people realize there is so much they don't know, and rate themselves lower than the morons rate themselves.
I can agree with that sentiment.
Lap speed on the Top Gear track is not the same as top speed, nor does it inconclusively prove that any car is better than another.
Even robbing a bank takes 'effort' [...] get to work.
I love ellipses.
I've never seen a business's livelihood blocking the sidewalk, but if I did I probably would key it.
I guess they don't have sidewalk advertisement signs where you live.
Until the Veyron, they pretty much just made concept cars.
I think Bugatti (or WV) loses money on each Veyron
Hopefully Bugatti, WV can't afford to lose that kind of cash.
He meant the motorcycle couldn't make the turn.
At under 10mpg (2mpg at full throttle), the Veyron has no place in an argument about practicality.
I only have one testicle, you insensitive clod!
So what's it like to drive your Veyron?