I wasn't suggesting that it was a bad thing. I'm actually pretty optimistic about 4E.
I like what they've done regarding giving all classes "powers" and making sure everyone always has something to contribute. Rangers have always been one of my favorite classes role-playing wise, but mechanically they're as boring as watching paint dry, and wizards are ultimate death machines at high level, but they might as well sit on the bench if you have more than one fight without resting at 1st or 2nd level.
The announcement mentioned "mutual exclusivity", which some are reading as "one product can not be licensed under both OGL and GSL", but one publisher said on ENworld that they think it's a per-company not per-product. We haven't heard any confirmation either way.
They've been very specific with the license regarding individual products' mutual exclusivity. Personally, I think that the per company thing is a little ridiculous and probably not correct, especially since they have been very specific about individual products. WotC probably just doesn't want to rush to dispel that guy's illusions as they fit perfectly with their druthers.
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1. something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
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If their prices are reasonable this could prove to be a much better value for some of their existing customers, and at the same time provide a great reason for their other customers to look into OpenOffice.
You made it all the way to 14?! When it came out all of my friends were telling me it was the greatest thing in the universe and I just HAD to try it, after all, all the cool kids were doing it. So I made a character on my friend's account and played 3 nights in a row. I made it to level 11, and I think I was bored to tears every minute of it.
If you use Google's App Engine, your only course is independent or being bought by Google - because you'd have to rewrite so much of your app to migrate to other infrastructure.
Or, if you're actually building an application that even remotely needed Google-level scalability, you could write an abstraction layer for your data. If you built it correctly it would be relatively trivial to port to a different environment.
Granted, I 100% agree with your that Bush is LE, not CN, but I think that's a very narrow (though common) interpretation of CN. You don't HAVE to be Daffy Duck random crazy in order to be CN. You could be someone who is an anarchist or otherwise against formal laws and tradition without having to say or do totally random nonsense.
But your interaction with that entity (in RL) is never more complicated than buying beer, nachos or hot dogs. Maybe you get change back.
If you were to find a sample of ballpark vendors and, one at a time, pay them and then begin to pummel them mercilessly to get your money back, I bet you'd begin to see startling range of emotional responses and behaviors.
I think morality issues will probably depend more on AI than on graphics.
I was about to suggest that it will change game design, probably making games more dramatic and thought-provoking, like the interactive-novel style of games that Star Trek crew members played in the holodeck, but I got to thinking that would really require passably intelligent and emotional AI characters.
No matter how realistic a GTA X whore looks, you're not going to feel a lot of empathy for her if she just follows a path down the block, day and night, repeating a handful of phrases and behaviors when you interact with her.
At my workplace we can do pretty much whatever we want with our computers as long as it's legal. I take my machine home and play games on it all the time. (My work laptop is actually a faster gaming machine than my desktop.)
It seems to work out pretty well. I haven't seen any big problems from it.
Grasping at straws much? I know we all love the freedom of information here on Slashdot, but suggesting net neutrality is on par with the burning of the Library of Alexandria a pretty dramatic stretch.
I know you were joking, but there would be no copyright infringement on the part of the thief, he's not copying or distributing the "intellectual property", he's stealing the physical medium on which it was printed.
If you want cold lifeless desert, go to Death Valley or Arabia or the Gobi. It's much closer. You get the same empty experience, and, most importantly, you don't cost your fellow taxpayers any money.
None of these, of course, are actually lifeless. Also, only one of them is consistently cold.
The percentage of working programmers who can't iterate over an array is probably in the 15-20% range, even without getting into whether "web programmers" are included in that statistic.
As a "web programmer", I find that statistic really hard to swallow. I've never met any professional developer who couldn't iterate over an array. Do you have anything, even anecdotal evidence to support that?
Unless by "web programmer" you're including anyone who ever took a class on Dreamweaver.
Well, I'm a Firefox man myself. I don't have a lot of love for Safari or IE7. They're both buggy and they both break Windows UI conventions, and the majority of IE users are using IE 6 or 7 on XP, and they're exchanging a buggy, insecure browser with a crappy HTML rendering engine for a buggy, insecure browser that has a good rendering engine.
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I wasn't suggesting that it was a bad thing. I'm actually pretty optimistic about 4E.
I like what they've done regarding giving all classes "powers" and making sure everyone always has something to contribute. Rangers have always been one of my favorite classes role-playing wise, but mechanically they're as boring as watching paint dry, and wizards are ultimate death machines at high level, but they might as well sit on the bench if you have more than one fight without resting at 1st or 2nd level.
Class abilities seem to work more along the lines of WoW talent trees than 3rd edition you always get X ability at level Y.
They've been very specific with the license regarding individual products' mutual exclusivity. Personally, I think that the per company thing is a little ridiculous and probably not correct, especially since they have been very specific about individual products. WotC probably just doesn't want to rush to dispel that guy's illusions as they fit perfectly with their druthers.
It is both a scam and a hoax.
I didn't say I was going to buy it. I said it could potentially provide a better value for some portion of Microsoft's existing customer base.
No one "owns" any Microsoft software now (except Microsoft), so the people that license it aren't losing anything they haven't already given up.
This is just another option for their existing customers, but obviously providing an option that you wouldn't pick is wrong.
If their prices are reasonable this could prove to be a much better value for some of their existing customers, and at the same time provide a great reason for their other customers to look into OpenOffice.
Everybody wins. Go Microsoft!
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You made it all the way to 14?! When it came out all of my friends were telling me it was the greatest thing in the universe and I just HAD to try it, after all, all the cool kids were doing it. So I made a character on my friend's account and played 3 nights in a row. I made it to level 11, and I think I was bored to tears every minute of it.
But, like NetHack, Diablo 2 has randomly generated dungeons, so you're really just supporting the GP's point.
Or, if you're actually building an application that even remotely needed Google-level scalability, you could write an abstraction layer for your data. If you built it correctly it would be relatively trivial to port to a different environment.
Because you don't built *applications* in HTML. This isn't geocities, it's an application platform.
Doom wasn't directed by Uwe Boll. It's not nearly as bad as any Uwe Boll movie (not that that makes it any good).
Clearly, you're unfamiliar with Wired.
Granted, I 100% agree with your that Bush is LE, not CN, but I think that's a very narrow (though common) interpretation of CN. You don't HAVE to be Daffy Duck random crazy in order to be CN. You could be someone who is an anarchist or otherwise against formal laws and tradition without having to say or do totally random nonsense.
But your interaction with that entity (in RL) is never more complicated than buying beer, nachos or hot dogs. Maybe you get change back.
If you were to find a sample of ballpark vendors and, one at a time, pay them and then begin to pummel them mercilessly to get your money back, I bet you'd begin to see startling range of emotional responses and behaviors.
I think morality issues will probably depend more on AI than on graphics.
I was about to suggest that it will change game design, probably making games more dramatic and thought-provoking, like the interactive-novel style of games that Star Trek crew members played in the holodeck, but I got to thinking that would really require passably intelligent and emotional AI characters.
No matter how realistic a GTA X whore looks, you're not going to feel a lot of empathy for her if she just follows a path down the block, day and night, repeating a handful of phrases and behaviors when you interact with her.
At my workplace we can do pretty much whatever we want with our computers as long as it's legal. I take my machine home and play games on it all the time. (My work laptop is actually a faster gaming machine than my desktop.)
It seems to work out pretty well. I haven't seen any big problems from it.
Grasping at straws much? I know we all love the freedom of information here on Slashdot, but suggesting net neutrality is on par with the burning of the Library of Alexandria a pretty dramatic stretch.
I know you were joking, but there would be no copyright infringement on the part of the thief, he's not copying or distributing the "intellectual property", he's stealing the physical medium on which it was printed.
None of these, of course, are actually lifeless. Also, only one of them is consistently cold.
Really? That wasn't my impression. I thought she actually looked bored and oblivious.
Granted, that could be his fault.
Yeah, just look at Paris Hilton!
As a "web programmer", I find that statistic really hard to swallow. I've never met any professional developer who couldn't iterate over an array. Do you have anything, even anecdotal evidence to support that?
Unless by "web programmer" you're including anyone who ever took a class on Dreamweaver.
Well, I'm a Firefox man myself. I don't have a lot of love for Safari or IE7. They're both buggy and they both break Windows UI conventions, and the majority of IE users are using IE 6 or 7 on XP, and they're exchanging a buggy, insecure browser with a crappy HTML rendering engine for a buggy, insecure browser that has a good rendering engine.