Oh, and she can change her build depending on the situation. If lots of pure, brutal damage is needed, she can go into Avenger build and do more damage (but take more). If a balanced mix is needed, Guardian stance, and then Sentinel if she needs to be a tank. Can't change roles like that in CoH.
Of course you can't do that in CoH. When CoH came out it was meant to be played in groups. If you wanted a healer you looked for a Defender (even though Defenders did more than just heal but if you weren't Empathy no one understood what you could do) for you group. If you needed someone to do crowd control you looked for a Controller. If you needed damage you looked for Blasters and Scrappers. You always had a tank to control the agro. Sounds to me like CO is just an online single-player game. Which is fine if you enjoy playing with yourself;-) But there is something to be said about having a group of people all getting along and working together through the missions....something you can't get playing alone.
City of Heroes where I... Beat up 5 people infected with a virus, and then beat up another 10 or so to get the formula for the cure, but really, I didn't need to, because the NPC I rescued seemed more than capable of doing that.
They added that NPC to the tutorial a few years after initial release of the game. It used to just be you (or you and a few teammates you picked up in the zone) in there. I couldn't understand why they added the NPC and then realized that someone probably complained about the tutorial being too difficult or something. That's about when I called it quits for MMOs. They start out great and then quickly start dumbing the game down to the lowest common denominator practically handing you everything on a silver platter and players STILL complain things are too hard. WoW was the worst for this.
Wow, you are making a really big assumption there...that the information you find on the internet is accurate. Don't trust everything you read, especially from only one source. A college education is not about job training it is about learning how to learn and one of the earliest lessons is to get your facts from more than one source.
When you take a StraighterLine course you will select one of our Partner Colleges to award credit for the course. You can continue your major studies and pursue your degree through this college or transfer those credits to your college of choice.
The important part they are leaving out is that the "college of your choice" does not have to accept the transfer credits.
They mention that books online aren't free, no, they aren't, but assuming your going digital you should be able to get digital copies (manual scans if you have to) of the books you already have and offer them for free, that way you aren't taking away any of the content they'd regularily have to.
Sure if you don't mind violating copyright. Most libraries won't even consider violating copyrighted works and risk pissing off publishers.
A starving student might get a hard copy of her very favorite book, but she can get the same content over the internet without paying. If you can stomach reading on a computer screen then you don't really need books.
Not true. A lot of books are not available online. One of the biggest areas of books that is not online is textbooks. Publishers of textbooks are not willing to give up their cash cow for convenience to the students.
Ironically, the only kindle owner I know is a 68 yo woman who has no love for technology. She got it as a gift and really loves it. If amazon is winning over technophobes like this then its really just a matter of time until they come around as they realize the convenience. Right near its early adopters only, but its getting there.
Unfortunately she doesn't understand that when Amazon goes out of business her "books" will no longer be accessible. When Penguin, or Bantam Spectra, or Addison Wesley, or O'Reilly go out of business the paper books I have will still be accessible. I have books from I read over 30 years ago and they are still readable. Will the current e-books still be readable 30 years from now? (Oh, and those books of mine will still be accessible in another 30 years.)
You can *never* have enough intelligent people, or even "Einsteins".
Really? Because if everyone was an Einstein who would do the menial tasks like factory work, construction, child care, teaching, etc. All those Einsteins would get bored and would under perform in those jobs. It needs to be a pyramid with a large base of people to perform the menial tasks with the "Einsteins" at the top think up the new stuff.
If he'd included any information at all â" even just the OS or the version of Firefox â" I'd be able to tell whether his experience should be similar to mine. "Firefox [version] on [OS] is unstable" is quite different from "Firefox is unstable".
Firefox on Solaris (Sparc) is not stable and has never really been. Like everyone else posting here, I want a stable, functional browser over a flashy UI. Oooohhh, I can see the desktop background through parts of the window !! Big F-ing deal.
It may be open as in free right now but with Micro$oft and Amazon involved pretty soon it will be "not-open-at-all, pay through the nose for DRM'd crap that you can only view on their proprietary device".
They don't truly know what Cc. stands for on an e-mail. Even if they do know it stands for the words "carbon copy" they don't know what a carbon copy is.
Of course this has been true for quite a few years.
And that's why I quit playing WOW. Pretty soon Blizzard will have just one race and one class since it seems they are intent on heading in that direction by constantly nerfing abilities that actually make classes and races unique.
Did the new BSG go into territory the original didn't? Well yes, some. But *everything* that happened in the original series happened in the new one, which I give Sci-Fi kudos for. (Ok, excepting for the daggits or flying motorcycles...)
Or Apollo raising Boxey. Or landing on a casino planet with insect people that start sticking the crew into hive compartments. Or Baltar becoming the leader of the Cylons. Or Starbuck being stranded on a prison planet where the inmates are the descendants of the original inmates. Or Apollo being stranded on a frontier planet and having an old-west shoot out with Red-Eye. Or encountering Count Iblis. And there are probably more that I just can't think of right now.
I guess it depends on your definition of *everything*.
Perhaps you think Finland must be tiny, in fact it's land area is 305470 sq km, that's bigger than Arizona. There are only five US states larger than Finland.
Sorry, but that actually is tiny compared to countries like Canada and the US.
The pacemaker is not connected to the internet. The "base station" is and that is what the doctors are remotely checking. The pacemaker is just sending its current state to the "base station". The pacemaker is no more connected to the internet than a wireless keyboard or a pair of bluetooth headphones are.
Which is great until you take the card or passport out of the RFID blocking wallet. Then a RFID reader nearby can pick up the information from a distance away. On the other hand, I think I'd notice someone leaning in real close to me with a barcode scanner trying to read my card.
The Da Vinci Code was fiction. Exactly what facts should the author of a work of fiction get straight? If the morons that read that particular book took it for truth that's their problem not the author's.
How about putting ads inside ads? Take a look at an ad, any ad. Open a magazine and look at an ad. Look at all that space in there. Plenty of room to jam another ad right in the middle. TV? Sure, lots of space to cram another ad inside an ad. Use picture in picture. Heck, you could cover the first ad entirely with other ads using picture in picture and depending on the size of each extra ad I bet that you would more than double your money! Radio? Heck yeah. Lot's of space. Just cram the words for another ad into the spaces between the words of the first ad. The possibilities are endless!
Ads inside ads. I'm running to the patent office right now!
And actually I might notice that every application on that machine DOES NOT behave the same way. This changed from Firefox 2 to Firefox 3. Even Thunderbird recognizes the default printer. And yes, I've removed and re-installed Firefox 3.
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Oh, and she can change her build depending on the situation. If lots of pure, brutal damage is needed, she can go into Avenger build and do more damage (but take more). If a balanced mix is needed, Guardian stance, and then Sentinel if she needs to be a tank. Can't change roles like that in CoH.
Of course you can't do that in CoH. When CoH came out it was meant to be played in groups. If you wanted a healer you looked for a Defender (even though Defenders did more than just heal but if you weren't Empathy no one understood what you could do) for you group. If you needed someone to do crowd control you looked for a Controller. If you needed damage you looked for Blasters and Scrappers. You always had a tank to control the agro. Sounds to me like CO is just an online single-player game. Which is fine if you enjoy playing with yourself ;-)
But there is something to be said about having a group of people all getting along and working together through the missions....something you can't get playing alone.
City of Heroes where I... Beat up 5 people infected with a virus, and then beat up another 10 or so to get the formula for the cure, but really, I didn't need to, because the NPC I rescued seemed more than capable of doing that.
They added that NPC to the tutorial a few years after initial release of the game. It used to just be you (or you and a few teammates you picked up in the zone) in there. I couldn't understand why they added the NPC and then realized that someone probably complained about the tutorial being too difficult or something. That's about when I called it quits for MMOs. They start out great and then quickly start dumbing the game down to the lowest common denominator practically handing you everything on a silver platter and players STILL complain things are too hard. WoW was the worst for this.
The sensitive data itself is even stored on an outside server so that even Facebook cannot access it.
So, Facebook doesn't have access to it but someone else does. Oh yes this is SOOOOO much better.
Wow, you are making a really big assumption there...that the information you find on the internet is accurate. Don't trust everything you read, especially from only one source. A college education is not about job training it is about learning how to learn and one of the earliest lessons is to get your facts from more than one source.
From the StraighterLine web site:
When you take a StraighterLine course you will select one of our Partner Colleges to award credit for the course. You can continue your major studies and pursue your degree through this college or transfer those credits to your college of choice.
The important part they are leaving out is that the "college of your choice" does not have to accept the transfer credits.
They mention that books online aren't free, no, they aren't, but assuming your going digital you should be able to get digital copies (manual scans if you have to) of the books you already have and offer them for free, that way you aren't taking away any of the content they'd regularily have to.
Sure if you don't mind violating copyright. Most libraries won't even consider violating copyrighted works and risk pissing off publishers.
A starving student might get a hard copy of her very favorite book, but she can get the same content over the internet without paying. If you can stomach reading on a computer screen then you don't really need books.
Not true. A lot of books are not available online. One of the biggest areas of books that is not online is textbooks. Publishers of textbooks are not willing to give up their cash cow for convenience to the students.
Ironically, the only kindle owner I know is a 68 yo woman who has no love for technology. She got it as a gift and really loves it. If amazon is winning over technophobes like this then its really just a matter of time until they come around as they realize the convenience. Right near its early adopters only, but its getting there.
Unfortunately she doesn't understand that when Amazon goes out of business her "books" will no longer be accessible. When Penguin, or Bantam Spectra, or Addison Wesley, or O'Reilly go out of business the paper books I have will still be accessible. I have books from I read over 30 years ago and they are still readable. Will the current e-books still be readable 30 years from now? (Oh, and those books of mine will still be accessible in another 30 years.)
You can *never* have enough intelligent people, or even "Einsteins".
Really? Because if everyone was an Einstein who would do the menial tasks like factory work, construction, child care, teaching, etc.
All those Einsteins would get bored and would under perform in those jobs. It needs to be a pyramid with a large base of people to perform the menial tasks with the "Einsteins" at the top think up the new stuff.
If he'd included any information at all â" even just the OS or the version of Firefox â" I'd be able to tell whether his experience should be similar to mine. "Firefox [version] on [OS] is unstable" is quite different from "Firefox is unstable".
Firefox on Solaris (Sparc) is not stable and has never really been. Like everyone else posting here, I want a stable, functional browser over a flashy UI. Oooohhh, I can see the desktop background through parts of the window !! Big F-ing deal.
And they could power Doc Brown's DeLorean.
It may be open as in free right now but with Micro$oft and Amazon involved pretty soon it will be "not-open-at-all, pay through the nose for DRM'd crap that you can only view on their proprietary device".
They don't truly know what Cc. stands for on an e-mail. Even if they do know it stands for the words "carbon copy" they don't know what a carbon copy is.
Of course this has been true for quite a few years.
And that's why I quit playing WOW. Pretty soon Blizzard will have just one race and one class since it seems they are intent on heading in that direction by constantly nerfing abilities that actually make classes and races unique.
Did the new BSG go into territory the original didn't? Well yes, some. But *everything* that happened in the original series happened in the new one, which I give Sci-Fi kudos for. (Ok, excepting for the daggits or flying motorcycles...)
Or Apollo raising Boxey. Or landing on a casino planet with insect people that start sticking the crew into hive compartments. Or Baltar becoming the leader of the Cylons. Or Starbuck being stranded on a prison planet where the inmates are the descendants of the original inmates. Or Apollo being stranded on a frontier planet and having an old-west shoot out with Red-Eye. Or encountering Count Iblis. And there are probably more that I just can't think of right now.
I guess it depends on your definition of *everything*.
You want to see expensive cable? Try Rogers Cable in Canada. They have gouging down to an art.
Perhaps you think Finland must be tiny, in fact it's land area is 305470 sq km, that's bigger than Arizona. There are only five US states larger than Finland.
Sorry, but that actually is tiny compared to countries like Canada and the US.
The pacemaker is not connected to the internet. The "base station" is and that is what the doctors are remotely checking. The pacemaker is just sending its current state to the "base station". The pacemaker is no more connected to the internet than a wireless keyboard or a pair of bluetooth headphones are.
Well if morons would stop trying to rip companies off with fraudulent warranty claims maybe these measures wouldn't be necessary.
Which is great until you take the card or passport out of the RFID blocking wallet. Then a RFID reader nearby can pick up the information from a distance away. On the other hand, I think I'd notice someone leaning in real close to me with a barcode scanner trying to read my card.
The Da Vinci Code was fiction. Exactly what facts should the author of a work of fiction get straight?
If the morons that read that particular book took it for truth that's their problem not the author's.
Don't kid yourself. WoW isn't original at all. It is a copy of every previous MMO (all the way back through MUDs) and even pencil and paper D&D.
How about putting ads inside ads? Take a look at an ad, any ad. Open a magazine and look at an ad. Look at all that space in there. Plenty of room to jam another ad right in the middle. TV? Sure, lots of space to cram another ad inside an ad. Use picture in picture. Heck, you could cover the first ad entirely with other ads using picture in picture and depending on the size of each extra ad I bet that you would more than double your money! Radio? Heck yeah. Lot's of space. Just cram the words for another ad into the spaces between the words of the first ad. The possibilities are endless!
Ads inside ads. I'm running to the patent office right now!
LOL Asshole for not realizing everyone in the world does not use Winbloze.
And actually I might notice that every application on that machine DOES NOT behave the same way. This changed from Firefox 2 to Firefox 3. Even Thunderbird recognizes the default printer. And yes, I've removed and re-installed Firefox 3.