Druids are not tank/dps hybrids though, they're more like tank/healing hybrids with some token dps. While a dps paladin can actually be useful I just/laugh in the general direction of any moonkin.
Since you can't create content faster then people use it up you have to create content that has to be re doable (grinding). Blizzard has at least made their grinding more enjoyable then the other MMO's I've tried so far.
However at the moment it might seem that Blizzard is releasing new content a bit fast, I've yet to decide if that's a good or bad thing.
Could I have a list of games banned in Europe? I've never experienced that a game other then Manhunter 2 has ever become banned although there were a lot of people that wanted to ban the game postal 2 for excessive violence here in Sweden.
I think you have MORE control not less if the regulating body is controled by the goverment. Then at least you can vote about it. When it's controlled by the industry there is nothing you can do at all if a game or movie you're interested in can't reach the market because it doesn't comply with the guidelines.
The interesting thing is that a lot of the greatest games should already work on Linux. Since all of Blizzards games work on both OS X and Windows they should work on Linux too right? That makes Linux capable of playing all games I'll ever really want.
The problem is I think that there isn't any official support for Linux, if games companies would be willing to fully support atleast one Linux distribution I think a fair amount of people would be willing to take the last step. It would also help if more companies switched away from DirectX and started using the more compatible OpenGL.
If you look at the most popular games today you'll notice at least a couple of them are heavily dependent on user created content and are continuously improved.
Half Life(1+2) and Warcraft 3 are great examples of this.
Games like this sounds very suitable for the OSS kind of model. If an OSS team could create a game engine with a map editor as powerful and easy to use as the one that comes with Warcraft 3 I think they could make a very competitive game even if the graphics is way below par. Just look how Warcraft 3 is dominating CC 3 that is allot newer with massively better graphics.
Or if they could write an FPS with the level of graphics of Half Life 1 would be enough if it allowed the community to easily create mods that might compete with Counter-Strike and Team Fortress.
The OSS community has the ability to create competitive games if they wanted too since truly great games aren't about resource intensive graphics but about great preferably moddable game play. It wouldn't surprise me if there are already games like that out there that I'll never hear off because of the difficulty of marketing a game without a marketing budget.
Since it seems to be a direct correlation between number of things voted about and lower voter participation I suspect that you keep more of the democracy by keeping elections as simple as possible. There's no way that an average voter can be expected to keep track of all the relevant politicians and issues.
So does that mean that if I set ButtonProperty to Buttons (ButtonProperty=Buttons ?) and then later reference the value of Buttons I'm supposed to get the button the user pressed which I can use to decide what function to call?
People in general are very bad at calculating real cost. It's the same with "Free extras" that you get with many products. People don't realize they've actually paid for those things.
In Sweden we have 5 people for every 3 (sometimes 4) voting boxes who are supposed to be party neutral (no one asks your party affiliation). The only issues we've ever had with voting fraud is when representatives of parties have gone to people that can't go to the voting locale (elderly and disabled) and tried to coerce them into voting for their party sometimes only providing the ballot of their own party.
In the voting locale we have a list over everyone legible to vote in our boxes (around 1000 people for every 3-4 boxes) and there is no risk with confusing people with the same name as a non legible voter since we go by birth date+number YY-MM-DD-NNNN instead of names for identification.
I fail to see the benefit of an insecure computer system compared to hand voting.
Here in Sweden we just divide all voters up into groups of around 1000 people each, all of these go to the same place to vote and around 5 people count all the votes. All votes are counted around 8 hours after closing. If it takes you weeks to count the votes you're doing something seriously wrong.
Our voting ballots are rather simple. There is a different color for each party and each party has a list of candidates. You just mark the candidate you vote for or no mark for the default candidate (1). The vote is invalid if you mark more then once candidate.
Technically we only count the party votes during the election and the central office counts the candidate votes which might take a week.
If you check the wording properly you'll notice a rather large problem. Almost every web page you visit has copyrighted material in it that you automatically download just by visiting the site. So by definition what you're saying is basically "Don't use the Internet".
Downloading copyrighted material is perfectly legal, it's distributing it without permission is what is illegal. The DMCA have made matters rather odd over there in the U.S though. I'm glad I live here in Sweden where I don't have to worry about that crap.
Has that ever been proven? From my understanding there is no connection between the punishment and crime ratio. Americas high crime rate + Large jail sentences/death penalty vs countries like Sweden's lower crime rates and much milder punishments.
Most people committing a crime doesn't count on getting caught. So far I've never seen any "effective" result from being "tough".
Sweden has 80% vote participation where the votes are completely hand counted. I fail to see how electronic voting would help...
We use fill in the box votes where only a few are ever discarded.
http://www.idea.int/vt/country_view.cfm?CountryCod e=SE
Windows XP can only give any one program access to 2gb and can only use 4gb total making it a bit limited. Shouldn't be any problems on Vista other then I can't figure out how you could ever use more then about 3gb of RAM with consumer use, I rarely break 1.5gb and then I got several games and movies on at once xD.
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We used to have a paladin topping the damage meters in one of my former raiding guilds, I wouldn't have acknowledged the possibility before I saw it.
Druids are not tank/dps hybrids though, they're more like tank/healing hybrids with some token dps. While a dps paladin can actually be useful I just /laugh in the general direction of any moonkin.
Wouldn't Warrior/Warlock make a lot more sense considering it's a Death Knight and not a blade master.
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hmm, arn't there already 2 Tank/DPS hybrids called Paladin and Warrior?
I would have expected the Death Knight to be a melee plate dps/debuff class.
Since you can't create content faster then people use it up you have to create content that has to be re doable (grinding). Blizzard has at least made their grinding more enjoyable then the other MMO's I've tried so far.
However at the moment it might seem that Blizzard is releasing new content a bit fast, I've yet to decide if that's a good or bad thing.
Could I have a list of games banned in Europe? I've never experienced that a game other then Manhunter 2 has ever become banned although there were a lot of people that wanted to ban the game postal 2 for excessive violence here in Sweden.
I think you have MORE control not less if the regulating body is controled by the goverment. Then at least you can vote about it. When it's controlled by the industry there is nothing you can do at all if a game or movie you're interested in can't reach the market because it doesn't comply with the guidelines.
I think a lot of people appreciate the service that the pirate bay provides.
I fail to see how funding your site through adds is somehow evil. Doesn't all sites do that?
The interesting thing is that a lot of the greatest games should already work on Linux. Since all of Blizzards games work on both OS X and Windows they should work on Linux too right? That makes Linux capable of playing all games I'll ever really want.
The problem is I think that there isn't any official support for Linux, if games companies would be willing to fully support atleast one Linux distribution I think a fair amount of people would be willing to take the last step. It would also help if more companies switched away from DirectX and started using the more compatible OpenGL.
If you look at the most popular games today you'll notice at least a couple of them are heavily dependent on user created content and are continuously improved.
Half Life(1+2) and Warcraft 3 are great examples of this.
Games like this sounds very suitable for the OSS kind of model. If an OSS team could create a game engine with a map editor as powerful and easy to use as the one that comes with Warcraft 3 I think they could make a very competitive game even if the graphics is way below par. Just look how Warcraft 3 is dominating CC 3 that is allot newer with massively better graphics.
Or if they could write an FPS with the level of graphics of Half Life 1 would be enough if it allowed the community to easily create mods that might compete with Counter-Strike and Team Fortress.
http://www.xfire.com/cms/stats/
The OSS community has the ability to create competitive games if they wanted too since truly great games aren't about resource intensive graphics but about great preferably moddable game play. It wouldn't surprise me if there are already games like that out there that I'll never hear off because of the difficulty of marketing a game without a marketing budget.
Sounds like an evil circle.
To get Market Share you need games.
To get Games you need Market Share.
Since it seems to be a direct correlation between number of things voted about and lower voter participation I suspect that you keep more of the democracy by keeping elections as simple as possible. There's no way that an average voter can be expected to keep track of all the relevant politicians and issues.
*makes a dechiffering attempt*
So does that mean that if I set ButtonProperty to Buttons (ButtonProperty=Buttons ?) and then later reference the value of Buttons I'm supposed to get the button the user pressed which I can use to decide what function to call?
People in general are very bad at calculating real cost. It's the same with "Free extras" that you get with many products. People don't realize they've actually paid for those things.
What's the point in having candidate based election instead of party based when there is only one candidate per party that has a chance to win?
In Sweden we have 5 people for every 3 (sometimes 4) voting boxes who are supposed to be party neutral (no one asks your party affiliation). The only issues we've ever had with voting fraud is when representatives of parties have gone to people that can't go to the voting locale (elderly and disabled) and tried to coerce them into voting for their party sometimes only providing the ballot of their own party.
In the voting locale we have a list over everyone legible to vote in our boxes (around 1000 people for every 3-4 boxes) and there is no risk with confusing people with the same name as a non legible voter since we go by birth date+number YY-MM-DD-NNNN instead of names for identification.
I fail to see the benefit of an insecure computer system compared to hand voting.
We actually have the same thing.
One vote for the local (Komun)
Then one for the regional (Län)
Then lastly for the country (Stat)
Also we sometimes add a fourth for a local issue.
Still only takes hours to figure out what party won and then a few days to calculate what candidates got seats.
Here in Sweden we just divide all voters up into groups of around 1000 people each, all of these go to the same place to vote and around 5 people count all the votes. All votes are counted around 8 hours after closing. If it takes you weeks to count the votes you're doing something seriously wrong.
Our voting ballots are rather simple. There is a different color for each party and each party has a list of candidates. You just mark the candidate you vote for or no mark for the default candidate (1). The vote is invalid if you mark more then once candidate.
Technically we only count the party votes during the election and the central office counts the candidate votes which might take a week.
other Motorola phones.
If you check the wording properly you'll notice a rather large problem. Almost every web page you visit has copyrighted material in it that you automatically download just by visiting the site. So by definition what you're saying is basically "Don't use the Internet".
Downloading copyrighted material is perfectly legal, it's distributing it without permission is what is illegal. The DMCA have made matters rather odd over there in the U.S though. I'm glad I live here in Sweden where I don't have to worry about that crap.
Has that ever been proven? From my understanding there is no connection between the punishment and crime ratio. Americas high crime rate + Large jail sentences/death penalty vs countries like Sweden's lower crime rates and much milder punishments. Most people committing a crime doesn't count on getting caught. So far I've never seen any "effective" result from being "tough".
Sweden has 80% vote participation where the votes are completely hand counted. I fail to see how electronic voting would help... We use fill in the box votes where only a few are ever discarded. http://www.idea.int/vt/country_view.cfm?CountryCod e=SE
Windows XP can only give any one program access to 2gb and can only use 4gb total making it a bit limited. Shouldn't be any problems on Vista other then I can't figure out how you could ever use more then about 3gb of RAM with consumer use, I rarely break 1.5gb and then I got several games and movies on at once xD.
Doesn't "Cause" and "Create" mean the same thing really? Every time you cause something you are creating something :=)