work in a bakery. have a 60,000 pound hot-tank of white chocolate I get to use every day for cookies. keep pestering them to add a dark chocolate tank. to no avail. wife is a 2 diabetic.
math = logic, or the ability to compute logical thought. 1+1=2=3-2+1
there fore, is it logical to assume that people who cannot understand math cannot understand logic (or vice-versa).
its an interesting viewpoint that i can logically relate to. sadly, logic is not taught below the college level, which I feel is a great travesty; that people have to wait so long to learn something so simple and yet so profound.
I also logically know my grammar is not good, and that a travesty in itself.
Id enjoy getting my teaching cert in order to teach logic to high school or middle school kids.
thats the problem, is there is no originality.
i ran a mud for 6 years. learned to code by myself. I miss it so bad. starting with a 100k mud file and broadening it out to over 10 megs is no easy feat.
ive played more mmo's then i care to count, or remember.
honestly, I almost prefer mudding, as it was original, or felt original. we made our own critters, how we wanted. we did not have to worry about ip rights, on a store area, for something someone else made.
what is worse, is that these mmo dev teams, make the same mistakes for years on end, over and over.
they dont learn from their mistakes (or others). all they can do is border them selves inside a box with someone elses ideas and attempt to run with it. whats worse, is they only do it half assed.
lord of the rings, wow, warhammer, conan, star trek, the list of ip rights goes on and on.
everquest, uo, camelot, that was original.
instead of cable companies cutting back on the internet that we love.
why not cut back on the 200+ channels of stupid stuff we never watch but are forced to pay for each month as part of our 'satellite and or cable plan' which offers a multitude of useless shows and entire channels.
think of the money and bandwidth they would save.
I wouldnt mind paying for metered bandwidth, IF it was a 2 way street. so If I wanted to only pay for showtime, tnt, the weather channel, the history channel and the discovery channel, that would be my bill every month for these channels. THEN I would not mind paying for metered bandwidth.
Give and take is a 2 way street.
how ever, us giving them our money and them taking away our service doesnt work.
this has been flawed for a long time, they keep shoving these changes down our throats, and we continue to let them.
and we wonder why the economy is screwed. because were a nation of enabilist consumers who enable consumption.
All hail our beloved Overlord, the aged, the undefeated, the Mouse!
As a side note, touch computing will probably be cool, but when Im buzzed, I will in no way not be lazy enough, to not use a mouse.
Laziness can only go so far.
As for the drive, I have always liked the idea of speaker powered drives. So we would attach a pair of Texas sized Pioneer speakers to the back of our space ship, and turn on some heavy, low frequency bass music. Of course we would need a 9364474 joule amp to drive it. It might how ever, take the biosphere off the planets we pass.
Was in HG beta, played from release to Mid March, never did the founders thing though. It could have been a really good game, but it failed someplace along the way (try serving a half baked cake at a banquet sometime). Ive read all the interviews with Roper & Company. Basically, I find the collapse of the game quite sad. My wife and kids also miss the game.
But hey, its always playable on single player.
Red banana can do what they want, but the people here in the states already fell for this one.
"There's no resilience stat in this game to reduce crits..."
check the initiative stat again on hover over...
played since closed beta, war is just better then wow on so many things that isnt the same pve raid every night.
80 levels of pvp,
40 levels of char,
40 levels for your guild,
equipment for rvr or pve,
public quests (a soon to be new addition to all mmo's).
if you can stand the queue times on the servers (rolled phoenix throne), 250 que's on a high/high server; its an absolute blast.
For the haters, why not play the game before you trash on it, you know, don't judge a book by its cover.
So they removed some content, guess what. The other 95% of the game is still there.
Inevitable city and the Order version of Inevitable are pretty damn big, especially with the ranked content that is available to a ranked city (3-5 stars).
The game itself is very fun, and from the getgo (level 3) your into scenario pvps, with regular rvr by level 8. It is not meant to be a standard pve mmo. It is a pvp mmo with a little bit of pve content tossed in, which is there mainly to align the story line for each of the 6 races. As far as exploration goes, it has quite a great deal of content.
As a Closed beta person, I don't crash, I don't lag, I don't get dc'ed (except to patch). I have fun, and there are not that many bugs to actually report. For a 'beta' product, this is almost unheard of. Especially having done several other beta's (9 or so) over the past few years. Most beta's are terrible products (wow, hellgate, several of the uo's, shadowbane, to name a few).
And yes, the lack of economy is a very, very, good thing. Crafting is in, but its not an important aspect. If you need something, you can either quest for it, via the Public Quest (great damn feature), or you can kill folks in rvr to nab your skills and loot.
Blizzard best hope that WotLK is damn near perfect and has some great pvp, if not, they are gonna loose quite a bit of clientele.
Ewoks were cool, and Lucas hadnt sold out then. Now days, with this clone wars movie, its obvious its only inspiration IS money. Whats worse, is the drivel of the story line almost negates its self. Lucasarts can embargo the reviews all they want, but the fact remains, they are still left with a pile of shite for a product and FORCE it down our throats as always.
Yeah, quite true. I don't actually run any Amd boards now. Just intel boards. Im to tired to even remember what motherboard this is. Oh, sleepy land where art thou. The pin to pin ratio has been tossed up in the air ever since cyrix was making cpu's. Its the marketing theory on forcing people to upgrade. Dogbert would be proud.
The big difference I see. Pin to Pin compatibility. With Intel, anything new cpu wise "always" requires a new motherboard (or so it seems). Its always been more pins to socket 939/940/945. But then again, that plays into the marketing aspect which Intel has always rocked on. Via is just trying to not only get a foot in the door, but break the door knob.
The kicker though, for what I see, is the hardware accelerated cryptographic security setup for hashing. While it doesn't seem like much now, everyone else is going to emulate it into their own new stuff. Kudos for Via.
The power consumption is only a bonus.
I think by xmas time, they should have a better version of these out, and I'll have to pick one up for the new year.
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they obviously arrested the people whose security credentials were used in the worm. they are probably already in a desert gulag, getting a good tan.
work in a bakery. have a 60,000 pound hot-tank of white chocolate I get to use every day for cookies. keep pestering them to add a dark chocolate tank. to no avail. wife is a 2 diabetic.
math = logic, or the ability to compute logical thought. 1+1=2=3-2+1
there fore, is it logical to assume that people who cannot understand math cannot understand logic (or vice-versa).
its an interesting viewpoint that i can logically relate to. sadly, logic is not taught below the college level, which I feel is a great travesty; that people have to wait so long to learn something so simple and yet so profound.
I also logically know my grammar is not good, and that a travesty in itself.
Id enjoy getting my teaching cert in order to teach logic to high school or middle school kids.
thats the problem, is there is no originality. i ran a mud for 6 years. learned to code by myself. I miss it so bad. starting with a 100k mud file and broadening it out to over 10 megs is no easy feat. ive played more mmo's then i care to count, or remember. honestly, I almost prefer mudding, as it was original, or felt original. we made our own critters, how we wanted. we did not have to worry about ip rights, on a store area, for something someone else made. what is worse, is that these mmo dev teams, make the same mistakes for years on end, over and over. they dont learn from their mistakes (or others). all they can do is border them selves inside a box with someone elses ideas and attempt to run with it. whats worse, is they only do it half assed. lord of the rings, wow, warhammer, conan, star trek, the list of ip rights goes on and on. everquest, uo, camelot, that was original.
Why not. The already have World of Walmart
instead of cable companies cutting back on the internet that we love.
why not cut back on the 200+ channels of stupid stuff we never watch but are forced to pay for each month as part of our 'satellite and or cable plan' which offers a multitude of useless shows and entire channels.
think of the money and bandwidth they would save.
I wouldnt mind paying for metered bandwidth, IF it was a 2 way street. so If I wanted to only pay for showtime, tnt, the weather channel, the history channel and the discovery channel, that would be my bill every month for these channels. THEN I would not mind paying for metered bandwidth.
Give and take is a 2 way street.
how ever, us giving them our money and them taking away our service doesnt work.
this has been flawed for a long time, they keep shoving these changes down our throats, and we continue to let them.
and we wonder why the economy is screwed. because were a nation of enabilist consumers who enable consumption.
blah. moz logged me out. will be funny in 20 years when everyone is permanently sun tanned from all the wireless power in the air.
All hail our beloved Overlord, the aged, the undefeated, the Mouse!
As a side note, touch computing will probably be cool, but when Im buzzed, I will in no way not be lazy enough, to not use a mouse.
Laziness can only go so far.
further proof, quervo is god.
As for the drive, I have always liked the idea of speaker powered drives. So we would attach a pair of Texas sized Pioneer speakers to the back of our space ship, and turn on some heavy, low frequency bass music. Of course we would need a 9364474 joule amp to drive it. It might how ever, take the biosphere off the planets we pass.
Was in HG beta, played from release to Mid March, never did the founders thing though. It could have been a really good game, but it failed someplace along the way (try serving a half baked cake at a banquet sometime). Ive read all the interviews with Roper & Company. Basically, I find the collapse of the game quite sad. My wife and kids also miss the game.
But hey, its always playable on single player.
Red banana can do what they want, but the people here in the states already fell for this one.
RIP Hellgate.
I would volunteer. Gladly.
asking if War is good is like asking the same of /..
rhetorical. reciprocal.
"There's no resilience stat in this game to reduce crits..."
check the initiative stat again on hover over... played since closed beta, war is just better then wow on so many things that isnt the same pve raid every night. 80 levels of pvp, 40 levels of char, 40 levels for your guild, equipment for rvr or pve, public quests (a soon to be new addition to all mmo's).
if you can stand the queue times on the servers (rolled phoenix throne), 250 que's on a high/high server; its an absolute blast.
Aoc will die along side DAoC once War releases.
For the haters, why not play the game before you trash on it, you know, don't judge a book by its cover.
So they removed some content, guess what. The other 95% of the game is still there.
Inevitable city and the Order version of Inevitable are pretty damn big, especially with the ranked content that is available to a ranked city (3-5 stars).
The game itself is very fun, and from the getgo (level 3) your into scenario pvps, with regular rvr by level 8. It is not meant to be a standard pve mmo. It is a pvp mmo with a little bit of pve content tossed in, which is there mainly to align the story line for each of the 6 races. As far as exploration goes, it has quite a great deal of content.
As a Closed beta person, I don't crash, I don't lag, I don't get dc'ed (except to patch). I have fun, and there are not that many bugs to actually report. For a 'beta' product, this is almost unheard of. Especially having done several other beta's (9 or so) over the past few years. Most beta's are terrible products (wow, hellgate, several of the uo's, shadowbane, to name a few).
And yes, the lack of economy is a very, very, good thing. Crafting is in, but its not an important aspect. If you need something, you can either quest for it, via the Public Quest (great damn feature), or you can kill folks in rvr to nab your skills and loot.
Blizzard best hope that WotLK is damn near perfect and has some great pvp, if not, they are gonna loose quite a bit of clientele.
I for one welcome our rocket chair creating overlords.
What did the cops get them for, speeding?
To think, I started out to mod this thread. But....
Wizards of the Coast has been trying to half kill the Forgotten realms for years now.
Such a shame too.
Inevitability Mrs Anderson, inevitability.
Ewoks were cool, and Lucas hadnt sold out then. Now days, with this clone wars movie, its obvious its only inspiration IS money. Whats worse, is the drivel of the story line almost negates its self. Lucasarts can embargo the reviews all they want, but the fact remains, they are still left with a pile of shite for a product and FORCE it down our throats as always.
OpenBSD is 3
Bush 'quick, nuke them, so we can keep our oil rights there."
Yeah, quite true. I don't actually run any Amd boards now. Just intel boards. Im to tired to even remember what motherboard this is. Oh, sleepy land where art thou. The pin to pin ratio has been tossed up in the air ever since cyrix was making cpu's. Its the marketing theory on forcing people to upgrade. Dogbert would be proud.
The big difference I see. Pin to Pin compatibility. With Intel, anything new cpu wise "always" requires a new motherboard (or so it seems). Its always been more pins to socket 939/940/945. But then again, that plays into the marketing aspect which Intel has always rocked on. Via is just trying to not only get a foot in the door, but break the door knob.
The kicker though, for what I see, is the hardware accelerated cryptographic security setup for hashing. While it doesn't seem like much now, everyone else is going to emulate it into their own new stuff. Kudos for Via.
The power consumption is only a bonus.
I think by xmas time, they should have a better version of these out, and I'll have to pick one up for the new year.
I for one would like to heartily welcome our soon to be, yet oh so impractical and semi over priced jetpack wearing overlords.