I think you're missing the point... The idea with multiplayer is to do stuff together and just have fun. It doesn't matter if you keep dying all the time.:)
I play with our 5- and 3-year-old kids. The younger ones can basically jump and go into the bubble. But they still enjoy being part of doing stuff together.
Winning isn't everything, and we still get through a level occasionally so the game slowly keeps advancing.:)
While it's annoying that something like this had to take ages, I still think it's a good thing that these things are looked into. Far too many deals are done under shady circumstances. At least this one, potentially affecting countless systems around the world in the long run, was scrutinized before given a go-ahead.
Make it a point to get up from your desk multiple times during your workday, even if it's only to walk back and fourth across the room a few times.
I keep my smoking co-workers company outside every now and then, just for the get-up-and-get-the-blood-flowing -factor. I'm betting any second hand smoke I inhale will be less of a risk than the benefits of moving about a bit. (Not that I ever would enter a smoking room, but fortunately there are none at our office.)
Besides, it's a proven fact that coders need breaks to be productive. It's a net gain for management too!;)
I've been playing the recent Tales of Monkey Island WiiWare games/chapters, and they most definitely have clear cut endings.
For us it's been a great way to have some friends over and get back into adventure gaming. The endings are welcome, a chapter can be completed in 3-4 hours, giving a great signal when to stop, get to bed, and schedule the next time.
I believe there has always been and will always be games with and without endings. And there are hybrid approaches too: For example in Super Mario Galaxy you keep playing after you've rescued Princess Peach from Bowser. The credits roll, the game ends in a sense, but you still get to go back and unlock more stuff and look for hidden levels etc...
When the register has too much cash or needs change they just tube it over. There's also at least one pharmacy which has people processing prescriptions at terminals, and storage below from where the drugs are tubed over. If it works, don't fix it I say.
But 'here is two', um, seriously? English is my third language and I've yet to have problems with using is for singular and are for plural.
On a sidenote, it's interesting how tiny a force gravity ultimately is... The gravity effect of the whole...friggin...planet on your body can be countered with the atomic bonds in a comparatively meager rope. Fascinating really.
This is why I got a quad core for my last upgrade. When I did I heard a lot of "yeah but you'll never use all those cores anyway." And now even browsers are being optimized for n-cores.:)
Of course being a programmer helps in judging some aspects of where software might be heading...
SL has some impressive tech, running a user-scriptable 3D world with user generated content. The idea was great, tried it for a while...
But the problem was that the server grid doesn't have enough power to allow a realistic amount of people anywhere. Whenever I was somewhere with over ten people things started lagging bad. So what you end up with are (often beautiful and extravagant) ghost towns. The concept of an open world seems like a great idea, but in practice a lot of areas are off limits due to security measures. And with little communal planning every server is more or less it's own little island.
I still love the concept, but like communism, a working implementation seems to elude us still.
I'm going to claim it's irrelevant if there is such a thing as a g-spot physically. If your partner has a specific spot (in addition to the clitoris) in her genitals which by the way of stimulation induces a torrent of orgasms we might as well call it a g-spot. The single most important "sex organ" is the human brain anyway, does it matter exactly how something works if it works?
Granted, it's nice to understand stuff scientifically and all. But in my experience sex it more of an art than science...;)
Reality isn't fun. If it was we wouldn't play games.
There's this thing called "sex". I highly recommend trying it. It can be awkward at the beginning, but once you find a suitable partner I'm confident you'll find that some kinds of real life play are quite fun.
There are some requirements though... You need to get your partner into "the mood", which at times is very challenging. "Protection" is also important, otherwise you might get a nasty infection or possibly spawn unwanted processes.
While it's true that many IT project failures are truly spectacularly expensive, many are also a learning experience. We should strive to eliminate failure, of course, but some inefficiency will always be present in any sufficiently complex undertaking.
If one failed project helps a business prevent similar failure in future projects, has the failed project not produced some value after all?
This is more philosophy than anything else, but things are seldom black and white in this world, are they?
So far it seems Microsoft has been sincere about not planning to litigate against projects implementing.NET open source. I'd call that a success any day, given how the Microsoft of yesteryear would have thought about these things.
I'm very much pro-choice in terms of both choice of language/framework and in terms of proprietary vs. open source. Interoperability given a mix of these things is always good. With.NET you can choose different languages for different parts of your project, and properly written the result will run on both Microsoft's platform and Mono. I think that is success enough.
There is no way to avoid the reality. With extended warranties the customer is getting scalped.
Not if I value my peace of mind highly enough to pay the extended warranty just because of that. I never made the argument it makes financial sense. But for me it might still make emotional sense.;)
I my case I have a family of six. So say we buy a washer for 1000€. If I can pay a little more and have warranty for four years instead of two it just makes sense. Even a high quality product can break early from the strain of being used far more than the average. (With four kids in daycare we wash at least one machinefull a day.)
Finland has excellent consumer protection laws, a faulty product I can always get replaced. But failure due to wear and tear is not something covered under those laws.
So sometimes it just makes sense to pay for an extended warranty. Especially when I know I don't have to worry about having to buy a new one for two years longer.
I don't know about you guys, but I plan to talk about sex with my kids when they reach puberty. Instead of forbidding them it makes much more sense to let them know what it is and that they aren't in a hurry. Porn is also quite OK as far as I'm concerned, as long as the consumer realizes it's a fantasy.
But there are very good reasons why society has settled at the 18/20 mark for "adulthood". There are heavy neurological changes occurring in your brain from around 12 to around 25. Even if we can physically procreate much earlier than when we're adults doesn't mean that the biological ability to do so makes it a good idea. Making babies is one thing, and being able to raise them with a fair chance to become balanced individuals is another.
There are lots of things which are perfectly legal yet something one would prefer to keep private.
My favorite example is a primary school teacher who happens to like BDSM sex. People who are into this adhere to the Safe, sane and consensual principle. (Note: NSFW image in Wikipedia article.) In short, whatever happens happens between consenting adults.
Yet I'd wager that given the average primary school class at least one of the parents will throw a fit if they find the kids' teacher is "a sick pervert".
So no, it's not as simple as simply abstaining from anything you wouldn't like other people to know. This is an extreme example, but I'm sure other people can come up with more subtle ones if need be.
This sounds like some kind of farce... and yet I can't help wonder how long it will take until I read about similar cases in Finland.
We have a great health care system, in theory. In practice everyone who can afford it has private health insurance too, so that you have the option of using private services when the public ones don't deliver.
I just read Rainbow's End. If there ever was a well written story about the potential of augumented reality, networked everyting, and the power of knowledge Vinge's book is one to read.
Unfortunately it will probably take another ten years or so until the people growing up with this tech end up in writer positions in the entertainment industry.
Sounds sensible to me. I'd imagine the vast majority of Ubuntu users are unlikely to use the gimp.
Even better: Average-joe/jane users don't need to use package managers anymore. 9.10's "Ubuntu Software Center" is very user friendly. Doesn't even say stuff about "packages", (which would only confuse someone who has no idea how software is managed in the Linux universe,) and just shows a progress bar until the app of your choice is installed.
Putting stuff in your mouth is just step one. How you chew your food, how well it is digested, how active your metabolism is, all these will affect how much energy you actually get out of your food.
Still, physics still stand: Use more energy than you get through food you _will_ lose weight.
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I think you're missing the point... The idea with multiplayer is to do stuff together and just have fun. It doesn't matter if you keep dying all the time. :)
I play with our 5- and 3-year-old kids. The younger ones can basically jump and go into the bubble. But they still enjoy being part of doing stuff together.
Winning isn't everything, and we still get through a level occasionally so the game slowly keeps advancing. :)
While it's annoying that something like this had to take ages, I still think it's a good thing that these things are looked into. Far too many deals are done under shady circumstances. At least this one, potentially affecting countless systems around the world in the long run, was scrutinized before given a go-ahead.
I will likely not be able to view any of them here in Finland.
(Not to mention that my Ubuntu desktop might not support whatever DRM they mandate.)
Make it a point to get up from your desk multiple times during your workday, even if it's only to walk back and fourth across the room a few times.
I keep my smoking co-workers company outside every now and then, just for the get-up-and-get-the-blood-flowing -factor. I'm betting any second hand smoke I inhale will be less of a risk than the benefits of moving about a bit. (Not that I ever would enter a smoking room, but fortunately there are none at our office.)
Besides, it's a proven fact that coders need breaks to be productive. It's a net gain for management too! ;)
I've been playing the recent Tales of Monkey Island WiiWare games/chapters, and they most definitely have clear cut endings.
For us it's been a great way to have some friends over and get back into adventure gaming. The endings are welcome, a chapter can be completed in 3-4 hours, giving a great signal when to stop, get to bed, and schedule the next time.
I believe there has always been and will always be games with and without endings. And there are hybrid approaches too: For example in Super Mario Galaxy you keep playing after you've rescued Princess Peach from Bowser. The credits roll, the game ends in a sense, but you still get to go back and unlock more stuff and look for hidden levels etc...
When the register has too much cash or needs change they just tube it over. There's also at least one pharmacy which has people processing prescriptions at terminals, and storage below from where the drugs are tubed over. If it works, don't fix it I say.
Oh, and here = Helsinki, Finland.
But 'here is two', um, seriously? English is my third language and I've yet to have problems with using is for singular and are for plural.
On a sidenote, it's interesting how tiny a force gravity ultimately is... The gravity effect of the whole...friggin...planet on your body can be countered with the atomic bonds in a comparatively meager rope. Fascinating really.
This is why I got a quad core for my last upgrade. When I did I heard a lot of "yeah but you'll never use all those cores anyway." And now even browsers are being optimized for n-cores. :)
Of course being a programmer helps in judging some aspects of where software might be heading...
SL has some impressive tech, running a user-scriptable 3D world with user generated content. The idea was great, tried it for a while...
But the problem was that the server grid doesn't have enough power to allow a realistic amount of people anywhere. Whenever I was somewhere with over ten people things started lagging bad. So what you end up with are (often beautiful and extravagant) ghost towns. The concept of an open world seems like a great idea, but in practice a lot of areas are off limits due to security measures. And with little communal planning every server is more or less it's own little island.
I still love the concept, but like communism, a working implementation seems to elude us still.
I'm going to claim it's irrelevant if there is such a thing as a g-spot physically. If your partner has a specific spot (in addition to the clitoris) in her genitals which by the way of stimulation induces a torrent of orgasms we might as well call it a g-spot. The single most important "sex organ" is the human brain anyway, does it matter exactly how something works if it works?
Granted, it's nice to understand stuff scientifically and all. But in my experience sex it more of an art than science... ;)
Reality isn't fun. If it was we wouldn't play games.
There's this thing called "sex". I highly recommend trying it. It can be awkward at the beginning, but once you find a suitable partner I'm confident you'll find that some kinds of real life play are quite fun.
There are some requirements though... You need to get your partner into "the mood", which at times is very challenging. "Protection" is also important, otherwise you might get a nasty infection or possibly spawn unwanted processes.
There's no use praying for failure just so you can gain experience at failing.
Of course not... But perhaps the occasional failure is a necessary component of the price of success?
While it's true that many IT project failures are truly spectacularly expensive, many are also a learning experience. We should strive to eliminate failure, of course, but some inefficiency will always be present in any sufficiently complex undertaking.
If one failed project helps a business prevent similar failure in future projects, has the failed project not produced some value after all?
This is more philosophy than anything else, but things are seldom black and white in this world, are they?
So far it seems Microsoft has been sincere about not planning to litigate against projects implementing .NET open source. I'd call that a success any day, given how the Microsoft of yesteryear would have thought about these things.
I'm very much pro-choice in terms of both choice of language/framework and in terms of proprietary vs. open source. Interoperability given a mix of these things is always good. With .NET you can choose different languages for different parts of your project, and properly written the result will run on both Microsoft's platform and Mono. I think that is success enough.
There is no way to avoid the reality. With extended warranties the customer is getting scalped.
Not if I value my peace of mind highly enough to pay the extended warranty just because of that. I never made the argument it makes financial sense. But for me it might still make emotional sense. ;)
Yes, I have this thing called a filing system... ;)
It's either in the in-pile, in the warranty-receipts -folder, or in the receipts 200X folder.
I my case I have a family of six. So say we buy a washer for 1000€. If I can pay a little more and have warranty for four years instead of two it just makes sense. Even a high quality product can break early from the strain of being used far more than the average. (With four kids in daycare we wash at least one machinefull a day.)
Finland has excellent consumer protection laws, a faulty product I can always get replaced. But failure due to wear and tear is not something covered under those laws.
So sometimes it just makes sense to pay for an extended warranty. Especially when I know I don't have to worry about having to buy a new one for two years longer.
Like I said, peace of mind has a value too... :)
If I buy a device and it doesn't break, is the extended warranty useless?
I don't think so. The whole point is that _if_ I have a bad device I can get it repaired. Peace of mind has value too.
It's not like my home insurance is useless just because no one has burglarized us and we haven't had any fires...
I don't know about you guys, but I plan to talk about sex with my kids when they reach puberty. Instead of forbidding them it makes much more sense to let them know what it is and that they aren't in a hurry. Porn is also quite OK as far as I'm concerned, as long as the consumer realizes it's a fantasy.
But there are very good reasons why society has settled at the 18/20 mark for "adulthood". There are heavy neurological changes occurring in your brain from around 12 to around 25. Even if we can physically procreate much earlier than when we're adults doesn't mean that the biological ability to do so makes it a good idea. Making babies is one thing, and being able to raise them with a fair chance to become balanced individuals is another.
Interestingly it's natrium in both Finnish and Swedish.
There are lots of things which are perfectly legal yet something one would prefer to keep private.
My favorite example is a primary school teacher who happens to like BDSM sex. People who are into this adhere to the Safe, sane and consensual principle. (Note: NSFW image in Wikipedia article.) In short, whatever happens happens between consenting adults.
Yet I'd wager that given the average primary school class at least one of the parents will throw a fit if they find the kids' teacher is "a sick pervert".
So no, it's not as simple as simply abstaining from anything you wouldn't like other people to know. This is an extreme example, but I'm sure other people can come up with more subtle ones if need be.
This sounds like some kind of farce... and yet I can't help wonder how long it will take until I read about similar cases in Finland.
We have a great health care system, in theory. In practice everyone who can afford it has private health insurance too, so that you have the option of using private services when the public ones don't deliver.
I just read Rainbow's End. If there ever was a well written story about the potential of augumented reality, networked everyting, and the power of knowledge Vinge's book is one to read.
Unfortunately it will probably take another ten years or so until the people growing up with this tech end up in writer positions in the entertainment industry.
It's still a click away in the package manager.
Sounds sensible to me. I'd imagine the vast majority of Ubuntu users are unlikely to use the gimp.
Even better: Average-joe/jane users don't need to use package managers anymore. 9.10's "Ubuntu Software Center" is very user friendly. Doesn't even say stuff about "packages", (which would only confuse someone who has no idea how software is managed in the Linux universe,) and just shows a progress bar until the app of your choice is installed.
Putting stuff in your mouth is just step one. How you chew your food, how well it is digested, how active your metabolism is, all these will affect how much energy you actually get out of your food.
Still, physics still stand: Use more energy than you get through food you _will_ lose weight.