Enemy Mine, the movie with Dennis Quad and Lou Gossett Jr? There was a love story in that? I must have missed it, or my memory is faltering, haven't seen it in 15+ years.
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The servers in GW work almost exlcusively in the non-instanced cities. They're not needed much for the instanced areas unless you have a large group.
The cities in guildwars are glorified chatrooms. There is little to no action in them, that is my point, all the action in the game is 100% instanced, whereas in WoW only ~10% of the action is instanced. You can have wars in the main cities of WoW with ~150-200 combatants beating on each other. That is impossible in Guildwars.
Eve online is a VERY different game from most MMOs, the universe is very large so you don't have 20k people flying around a single planet. The game design lends itself to allowing massive numbers of people to play on a "single" server. WoW and most other sharded MMOs have small game worlds by comparison stuffing several 1000 players in relatively close proximity.
I know little of second life.
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Isn't the PvP in Guild Wars done in arenas?
No, WoW really can't use the same type of system that guild wars uses. Guild Wars content is 100% instanced, it is very easy to just throw a new server up when one of theirs gets full, it is just a new instance. WoWs content is about 10% instanced, the 90% non-instanced content is what takes such huge amounts of horsepower and what makes it a real MMO.
Which analog TV is capable of displaying 480p (especially the $150 price range)? All the lowend non-HD TVs are only 480i that I have seen. Haven't looked in a while though.
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Just clarifying, I mean they are worth about the same looking at the Market Cap, they are about equal.
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IBM stock is worth about as much as google stock is. It is just that IBM has A LOT more stock out there (1.58B for IBM as opposed to 295M for Google) so each share is worth less.
Google is overpriced though IMO, their Trailing P/E is rather high (95), but if the Forward P/E (49) is correct it is not TOO terrible.
Maybe it should be "nearly anyone can almost perfectly counterfeit anything in the digital world". It is MUCH harder to counterfeit analog stuff, try counterfitting the Mona Lisa, not an easy thing to do.
About the only thing I know about being changed with Hunter pets is that their speed was supposedly normalized. This allows you to actually run away from the pets when you are on a mount unlike previously where all the pets seemed to have infinite speed (at least all the ones that hunters who PvP use anyway) able to catch an epic mount.
D&D isn't particularly complex. The most complex stuff is all the background stuff, like saving throws, to hit rolls, damage calculation. Even that is pretty simple, roll a die and look up the result on a table.
If you want a complex RPG look at rolemaster, I only played it once but it was kind of ridiculous, took like 10 minutes to kill an orc because of all the dice rolls and lookups.
It is a matter of user education more than the lack of security software. I run a hardware firewall (cheap $60 home cable/DSL router) and feel perfectly safe with just that. I do run AV, but only because my company provides/requires it to connect to their network. Never gotten a virus (or detected one). I run spyware scans on occasion also, never gotten any spyware. I also get ZERO spam in my real email addresses (except my hotmail one, I think they sell their userlists or something, NEVER use it except for MSN messenger yet I get spam in it every couple of weeks). It is very easy to stay safe.
I also have test systems that I don't care about and do all kinds of stupid things with, those things get infected with spyware regularly, never gotten a virus in one of those however. I have a junk yahoo acount that I do all my registrations with, I get about 100 spam a day.
I am almost in the same boat, though I have a 32 inseam (so I can usually find pants), 34 sleeve. It sucks trying to find shirts that fit right, M shirts can fit but are usually too short, L shirts are usually long enough but then I have about a foot of extra fabric wrapped around my body. Tall sizes only seem to come in L or bigger.
If you play as the undead, you can see the entry to Undercity looks just like the throne room from the cut scenes in Warcraft III (where mad Prince Arthas assassinates his father).
And in one of the coolest easter eggs of the game the sound of that entire cutscene plays in the background when you enter the throneroom. It is muffled and blends in well with the ambient music, but it is there.
Hmm, not really, usualy the theater only sees maybe 20% of the ticket take in the first couple of weeks, the rest goes to the studio. For BIG blockbuster types the theater can get 0 the first week. As the weeks roll by the theater's cut increases. This is why $0.05 of popcorn costs you $6 from the concession stand.
I think his critique of Seinfeld is pretty spot on, it is just a collection of funny anecdotes about a group of people, no real relationships are there beyond the superficial. Still it is a hilarious show, which I think works wonderfully.
The article states that each pack will contain a lottery type scratch off ticket which will contain codes for appearance alterations for your toon. Doesn't seem too exciting to me.
You know, if you weren't such a pompous asshole I probably wouldn't have replied to you in the first place.
I know exactly what you were saying and the context. You are saying that OSS is better because it is Free. LibertineR mistakenly translated Free into costs less. I am not replying to that, I am saying that the basic idea that Free == Better which you made in your post is not true for a large number of people.
My reply had nothing to do with LibertineRs post. I was replying directly to your argument that water is better because it is Free. As an end-user wether something is opensource or not makes ZERO difference to me. I just want to use the software that does what I need. My point is that whethter something is OSS is irrelevant to me. Saying a piece of software is better because it is Free is not a solid argument to 90%+ of the population. A piece of software is better because it does what I need it to do better.
Bah, rogues are fine, they just need a few tweaks (replace the couple of useless talents, improved distract, throwing spec) and some slightly better weapon itemization (need more daggers). MAYBE some slight tweaks to eviscerate so it scales better at end game.
But then I got to level 60, and all that ended. Now, instead of being able to do most things alone or with a small group of friends, game accomplishments take a full raid of 40 people?
I have been 60 for about 2-3 months now. I have been in ONE 40 person PvE raid, trying to take out Azuregos (sp?) a couple of weeks after it was introduced. since then I have been on MANY 5 person instance runs through BRD, LBRS, Stratholme, Scholomance, DM. I am a casualy player so I still haven't comepletely finished all of Dire Maul or LBRS. There are also a number of lvl55-60 outdoor quests which are doable with a small group.
The only 40 person raid material is Molten Core, Onyxia, the afformention Azuregos, and Blackwing Lair. I have never been in any of those instances (aside from the 30 second look inside MC after finishing a BRD run).
If you have finished all the lvl 60 instances and don't want to join in on the raid content, well the game is probably done for you, cancel and be satisfied with the fun you had. When new 5 person lvl 60 instances come out you can just resubscribe and pick up where you left of.
I said it would be good to get ads which I might actually be interested in, you replied with:
Gosh yes. I just live for the opportunity to give you all the information you need to manipulate me more efficiently into buying more junk I don't need at every possible opportunity. Really, that's all I've ever wanted from a web site is better adverts. Hell, let's lose the content altogether and just have ads.
Yeah, it would be great to have an ad free web. Too bad no one can afford to do that. Bandwidth costs money. Developing webpages cost money. Advertisements are one way to pay for these costs.
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Enemy Mine, the movie with Dennis Quad and Lou Gossett Jr? There was a love story in that? I must have missed it, or my memory is faltering, haven't seen it in 15+ years.
Isn't the PvP in Guild Wars done in arenas?
No, WoW really can't use the same type of system that guild wars uses. Guild Wars content is 100% instanced, it is very easy to just throw a new server up when one of theirs gets full, it is just a new instance. WoWs content is about 10% instanced, the 90% non-instanced content is what takes such huge amounts of horsepower and what makes it a real MMO.
Which analog TV is capable of displaying 480p (especially the $150 price range)? All the lowend non-HD TVs are only 480i that I have seen. Haven't looked in a while though.
Just clarifying, I mean they are worth about the same looking at the Market Cap, they are about equal.
IBM stock is worth about as much as google stock is. It is just that IBM has A LOT more stock out there (1.58B for IBM as opposed to 295M for Google) so each share is worth less.
Google is overpriced though IMO, their Trailing P/E is rather high (95), but if the Forward P/E (49) is correct it is not TOO terrible.
Maybe it should be "nearly anyone can almost perfectly counterfeit anything in the digital world". It is MUCH harder to counterfeit analog stuff, try counterfitting the Mona Lisa, not an easy thing to do.
About the only thing I know about being changed with Hunter pets is that their speed was supposedly normalized. This allows you to actually run away from the pets when you are on a mount unlike previously where all the pets seemed to have infinite speed (at least all the ones that hunters who PvP use anyway) able to catch an epic mount.
D&D isn't particularly complex. The most complex stuff is all the background stuff, like saving throws, to hit rolls, damage calculation. Even that is pretty simple, roll a die and look up the result on a table.
If you want a complex RPG look at rolemaster, I only played it once but it was kind of ridiculous, took like 10 minutes to kill an orc because of all the dice rolls and lookups.
It is a matter of user education more than the lack of security software. I run a hardware firewall (cheap $60 home cable/DSL router) and feel perfectly safe with just that. I do run AV, but only because my company provides/requires it to connect to their network. Never gotten a virus (or detected one). I run spyware scans on occasion also, never gotten any spyware. I also get ZERO spam in my real email addresses (except my hotmail one, I think they sell their userlists or something, NEVER use it except for MSN messenger yet I get spam in it every couple of weeks). It is very easy to stay safe.
I also have test systems that I don't care about and do all kinds of stupid things with, those things get infected with spyware regularly, never gotten a virus in one of those however. I have a junk yahoo acount that I do all my registrations with, I get about 100 spam a day.
It is really not surprising. Criminals don't exactly have a mainstream view of right from wrong.
I am almost in the same boat, though I have a 32 inseam (so I can usually find pants), 34 sleeve. It sucks trying to find shirts that fit right, M shirts can fit but are usually too short, L shirts are usually long enough but then I have about a foot of extra fabric wrapped around my body. Tall sizes only seem to come in L or bigger.
Hmm, not really, usualy the theater only sees maybe 20% of the ticket take in the first couple of weeks, the rest goes to the studio. For BIG blockbuster types the theater can get 0 the first week. As the weeks roll by the theater's cut increases. This is why $0.05 of popcorn costs you $6 from the concession stand.
I think his critique of Seinfeld is pretty spot on, it is just a collection of funny anecdotes about a group of people, no real relationships are there beyond the superficial. Still it is a hilarious show, which I think works wonderfully.
Just FYI, the quote in question was made by Bill Bennett on his radio talk show, he was the secretary of education ~20 years ago.
The article states that each pack will contain a lottery type scratch off ticket which will contain codes for appearance alterations for your toon. Doesn't seem too exciting to me.
You know, if you weren't such a pompous asshole I probably wouldn't have replied to you in the first place.
I know exactly what you were saying and the context. You are saying that OSS is better because it is Free. LibertineR mistakenly translated Free into costs less. I am not replying to that, I am saying that the basic idea that Free == Better which you made in your post is not true for a large number of people.
My reply had nothing to do with LibertineRs post. I was replying directly to your argument that water is better because it is Free. As an end-user wether something is opensource or not makes ZERO difference to me. I just want to use the software that does what I need. My point is that whethter something is OSS is irrelevant to me. Saying a piece of software is better because it is Free is not a solid argument to 90%+ of the population. A piece of software is better because it does what I need it to do better.
Bah, rogues are fine, they just need a few tweaks (replace the couple of useless talents, improved distract, throwing spec) and some slightly better weapon itemization (need more daggers). MAYBE some slight tweaks to eviscerate so it scales better at end game.
The only 40 person raid material is Molten Core, Onyxia, the afformention Azuregos, and Blackwing Lair. I have never been in any of those instances (aside from the 30 second look inside MC after finishing a BRD run).
If you have finished all the lvl 60 instances and don't want to join in on the raid content, well the game is probably done for you, cancel and be satisfied with the fun you had. When new 5 person lvl 60 instances come out you can just resubscribe and pick up where you left of.
most people just want to drink a beer. How many time do YOU people have to be told?
I already gave my point. It would be nice if the ads I did see were for something that actually interested me.
Yeah, it would be great to have an ad free web. Too bad no one can afford to do that. Bandwidth costs money. Developing webpages cost money. Advertisements are one way to pay for these costs.