After reading that article I've come to the conclusion that the U.S messed up the implementation of Unions.
The problem is that you forced them to represent everyone and then to solve the "free rider" problem you made paying for them mandatory in the end making them into some kind of unofficial state agency.
If Unions only had to represent their members and membership was voluntary I think you'd have alot less problems.
I don't know about the US since I don't live there, but in Sweden the state unions are generally regarded as freakin useless. The problem appears to be that they're not allowed to go on strike since that would be damaging to the country so their bargaining position is pathetic.
If I've been to paris, then I've by extension also visited france and europe. If I've visited berlin I've also visited germany.
According to your logic I havn't visited france, I havn't visited england, I havn't visited belgium, I havn't visited denmark, france, finland or germany.
Why? because apparently I didn't spend as much time as humanly possible exploring these places. Geez.
Apparently I havn't even visited my own country because I havn't been in half of it.
You're trying to warp that poor column into something it just never was meant to be.
All they did was compare what kinds of tags 4 different MMO's got and noticed they were fairly different. They never tried to analyze the genre.
You trying to critize the column for not being a proper statistical evaluation of the MMO genre is like me criticizing your post for not being a proper essay on the correct way to use statistics, obviously you're falling short on so many points it's a waste of effort trying to list them.
The "Slow down data entry" thing about the QWERTY configuration is a myth.
The reason they went with QWERTY was that it prevented the typing machine from hanging up which was common with the first ABCDE model, it also allowed them to type TYPEWRITER with a single row which apparently was very nice for the sales representatives.
Preferring the "clickyness" of model M keyboards is a taste thing, personally I like my keyboards silent. However I really can't stand not feeling my interface. I want to know that I clicked the button I clicked, touch typing would be completely impossible without tactile feedback.
While I can see some advantage to adding a third input device for manipulating graphical elements I really don't see it replacing the mouse in any way. The mouse is a precision interface and your fingers are anything but precise.
Yes, I'd agree that the technology has uses and will probably be used in pararel to the keyboard and mouse. I just don't see it replacing the mouse and keyboard any time soon.
That was my entire original point. It's an article written for an NA audience, of course it'll focus on the games most popular amongst that audience.
The entire point of their website is finding patterns among the games that their visitors enjoy. Accusing them of NA bias is like accusing the new york times of NY bias.
Yes Lineage, runescape and FFX may all have bigger market shares then LotR online but the readers of gamerdna are probably more interested in LotR anyhow.
"I seriously can't wait until WOW dies off, not because I don't like it (I don't in fact like it at all), but because I hate seeing the responses from rabid fanboi types who leap to its defense if anything suggests that it might have its preeminence threatened in any way. To be honest I would feel the same way about a game I enjoyed playing. Its *JUST A GAME*:P"
How would that help you in any way? The way MMO dynamics work (People will flock to the most popular game because that's what their friends play) means that whenever WoW dies it'll just be replaced by an equally big behemot that you'll probably dislike just as much that'll have just as rabid fanboys.
However to be honest I've never seen these rabid fanboys of yours. I've only seen their opposite, people that hate the game only because it exists.
Most arguments in favor of WoW are just saying that it's the best MMO out there, it's not perfect in any way, it's just the competition is worse.
Well, in their defense I could see it being useful for presentation, nowadays the presenter tends to have to walk around with a remote control if he doesn't want to sit down at the computer every few minutes, with this technology he could just gesture at the screen instead.(But it wouldn't surprise me if he still has to walk around with a remote control).
That means WoW has on average 490,000 players online in the western world at any one time, that's way more then runescapes max capacity. Stop talking out of your ass.
It doesn't appear like it's meant to get pushed to terribly many computers so a really low connection cap like 20 should probably be enough and I have a hard time seeing how that would trash any router.
Future releases will undoubtedly have a modified and more polished BD+ protection, but we are well prepared for this and await the coming developments rather relaxed". Van Heuen adds jokingly: "The worst-case scenario then is our boss locks us up with only bread and water in the company dungeon for three months until we are successful again".
Future releases will undoubtedly have a modified and more polished BD+ protection, but we are well prepared for this and await the coming developments rather relaxed". Van Heuen adds jokingly: "The worst-case scenario then is our boss locks us up with only bread and water in the company dungeon for three months until we are successful again".
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After reading that article I've come to the conclusion that the U.S messed up the implementation of Unions.
The problem is that you forced them to represent everyone and then to solve the "free rider" problem you made paying for them mandatory in the end making them into some kind of unofficial state agency.
If Unions only had to represent their members and membership was voluntary I think you'd have alot less problems.
Probably because their salaries are a tiny tiny tiny fraction of the budget. Police, fire, libraries etc are the big expenses.
I don't know about the US since I don't live there, but in Sweden the state unions are generally regarded as freakin useless. The problem appears to be that they're not allowed to go on strike since that would be damaging to the country so their bargaining position is pathetic.
The nurses are in a similar position.
If they're mandatory they've stopped being unions and started being some kind of mini state.
You're just being silly.
If I've been to paris, then I've by extension also visited france and europe. If I've visited berlin I've also visited germany.
According to your logic I havn't visited france, I havn't visited england, I havn't visited belgium, I havn't visited denmark, france, finland or germany.
Why? because apparently I didn't spend as much time as humanly possible exploring these places. Geez.
Apparently I havn't even visited my own country because I havn't been in half of it.
Visiting a world doesn't mean vising all of it in any language I know of.
Actually the article is almost only about touch screens. It talks about the iphone(Touchscreen) then it talks about CNN's wall(touchscreen).
Touch computing isn't even a defined concept. Neither wikipedia or google define: touch computing can find it.
Actually if you google for it, PC world(The article) and Slashdot(The summary) are almost the only ones using the concept.
Did you even read the article?
You're trying to warp that poor column into something it just never was meant to be.
All they did was compare what kinds of tags 4 different MMO's got and noticed they were fairly different. They never tried to analyze the genre.
You trying to critize the column for not being a proper statistical evaluation of the MMO genre is like me criticizing your post for not being a proper essay on the correct way to use statistics, obviously you're falling short on so many points it's a waste of effort trying to list them.
The "Slow down data entry" thing about the QWERTY configuration is a myth.
The reason they went with QWERTY was that it prevented the typing machine from hanging up which was common with the first ABCDE model, it also allowed them to type TYPEWRITER with a single row which apparently was very nice for the sales representatives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwerty
Preferring the "clickyness" of model M keyboards is a taste thing, personally I like my keyboards silent. However I really can't stand not feeling my interface. I want to know that I clicked the button I clicked, touch typing would be completely impossible without tactile feedback.
While I can see some advantage to adding a third input device for manipulating graphical elements I really don't see it replacing the mouse in any way. The mouse is a precision interface and your fingers are anything but precise.
Yes, I'd agree that the technology has uses and will probably be used in pararel to the keyboard and mouse. I just don't see it replacing the mouse and keyboard any time soon.
That was my entire original point. It's an article written for an NA audience, of course it'll focus on the games most popular amongst that audience.
The entire point of their website is finding patterns among the games that their visitors enjoy. Accusing them of NA bias is like accusing the new york times of NY bias.
Yes Lineage, runescape and FFX may all have bigger market shares then LotR online but the readers of gamerdna are probably more interested in LotR anyhow.
"I seriously can't wait until WOW dies off, not because I don't like it (I don't in fact like it at all), but because I hate seeing the responses from rabid fanboi types who leap to its defense if anything suggests that it might have its preeminence threatened in any way. To be honest I would feel the same way about a game I enjoyed playing. Its *JUST A GAME* :P"
How would that help you in any way? The way MMO dynamics work (People will flock to the most popular game because that's what their friends play) means that whenever WoW dies it'll just be replaced by an equally big behemot that you'll probably dislike just as much that'll have just as rabid fanboys.
However to be honest I've never seen these rabid fanboys of yours. I've only seen their opposite, people that hate the game only because it exists.
Most arguments in favor of WoW are just saying that it's the best MMO out there, it's not perfect in any way, it's just the competition is worse.
Well, in their defense I could see it being useful for presentation, nowadays the presenter tends to have to walk around with a remote control if he doesn't want to sit down at the computer every few minutes, with this technology he could just gesture at the screen instead.(But it wouldn't surprise me if he still has to walk around with a remote control).
In my experience touch computing just plain sucks, I'm barely able to get anything done without tactile feedback.
*Forgot to apply that there are two factions per server so the total is 980,000 players on average.
They might have more accounts but I haven't seen any proof they have more active players.
Runescape can apparently handle a total of 320,000 players online at once. (160 servers, 2000 players per server)
Comparatively WoW has 236 servers in the US and 254 in the EU.
With an average of 1000 players per faction online at any one time:
http://www.warcraftrealms.com/activity.php?serverid=-1
That means WoW has on average 490,000 players online in the western world at any one time, that's way more then runescapes max capacity. Stop talking out of your ass.
How silly of them to use the most popular MMO's played by their readers.
Apparently D-Link Routers can die if you just look at them wrong, I don't think they're a good baseline for what can cause problems with routers :P
It doesn't appear like it's meant to get pushed to terribly many computers so a really low connection cap like 20 should probably be enough and I have a hard time seeing how that would trash any router.
If the doctor doesn't keep up to date on what medicine he gives out to his patients he should in my opinion lose his license.
Even if we agree that the start date is november they still have until the start of February before the estimate starts being "underestimated".
And sarcasm is always fun.
Seems so, the key is 1280 in length so it would probably take a silly amount of time to break.
Read the source of that sentence:
Future releases will undoubtedly have a modified
and more polished BD+ protection, but we are well prepared for this
and await the coming developments rather relaxed". Van Heuen adds
jokingly: "The worst-case scenario then is our boss locks us up with
only bread and water in the company dungeon for three months until we
are successful again".
You get an F in reading comprehension.
Future releases will undoubtedly have a modified
and more polished BD+ protection, but we are well prepared for this
and await the coming developments rather relaxed". Van Heuen adds
jokingly: "The worst-case scenario then is our boss locks us up with
only bread and water in the company dungeon for three months until we
are successful again".
As you all know, journalism and reading comprehension don't mix.