100s of miles of wind turbines are probably more resillient than a few tens of nuclear stations. At least vs terrorism/war... maybe not vs natural disasters.
I already type "g ATI R740" in the adress bar of Opera when I want Google to tell me if ATI's latest is available yat, or "w Godly Hammer of Roxxoriness" when I want to search WoWHead for that item ?
Not really. The church has long been a powerful financial/political/educational machine, one of the few accepted carrers for children of the elite. For all those reasons, intelligent and educated people often had some involvement, at some point, with the church, apart from possible religious convictions.
That is no longer the case though, or not as strongly. We no longer have to deal with that conflict and jump though hoops to try and make science without angering paymasters / teachers / bosses.
laws allowing to retaliate against China would, I think, be unfair in the same laws do not apply vs other governements including our own... warantless illegal wiretapping anyone ?
Sadly, I'm beginning to think that the percieved liberal bias in the media is due to the media (minus Fox News) trying to be somewhat intelligent and empathetic, and grassroot conservatism trying to dumb things down and putting everything in terms of good vs evil, us vs them, as much as possible.
Have you ever read The Economist ? These guys are economic conservative, and social liberals. Pretty much the opposite of Fox News: they advocate gay marriage, abortion...
I find in particular that they try to separate facts from opinions, and to be reasonably pragmatic.
1- Naming it Colbert is ridiculous and fun. We need more of that ! 2- Please, link to the web site that instantly and completely unveils every dead person's complete life, actions and thoughts. It's not as if we regularly had nasty surprises...
1- They ARE preventing devs from selling addons. The only monetary contributions they tolerate are 1- voluntary, 2- requested only on the web site (not by the addon itself), 3- not complemented by in-game adds, even just one request for donations at the addon launch (which is NOT my definition of spam)
Too me, a crappy client is one that doesn't do what I need, or does it in an inefficient/irritating way. WoW's basic client certainly meets all those criteria. Maybe other MMORPGS are worse, but WoW without addons.. would anybody play it, especially HL ?
Again, Blizzard is free-riding on the addons devs efforts.
2- No. The companies you think of are gold sellers, who use addons and database web sites as a marketing conduit to garner sales. No addon/DB website is either independant nor financially viable by itself. Blizzard is channeling players to the golds sellers via the addon sites.
Furthermore, some addons are on one site, some on another, some have an autoupdater, some don't... a unified, universal addon repository would be peachy.
3- The liability argument is bollocks. Is Steam liable for the quality of all the games it distributes ? Blizzard considers itself not even liable for the barebones WoW client. And if it were, liable for what exactly ?
4- All I'm saying is pretty much everytime Blizzard has tried to integrate an addon's functionnality in their own basic client, the result has been underwhelming: who uses their calendar, their voice chat system (not really an addon, but still), their threat manager (in raids), their lag estimation, their raid grid,... ? And many of the better addons, they haven't even tried to integrate (auctioneer, HUDs, bongos...)
Or maybe, after taking care of the supply side by invading Iraq, the US should start taking care of the demand side by invading India and regressing them to the stone age ?
Back when I was learning marketing 20 years ago, we were told the trade off was between performance and reliability. I guess features vs reliability makes sense too, but a few MHz and thus ÂF or C less would have made wonders.
Indeed. I find there are just too many factual impossibilitites in the bible (and so many hateful statements).
Your crucifixion example: you think it's true because people believe in it... That makes a whole lot of other things true: Scientology, Arianism... I'll leave you to deal with those ones....
I know the some say the bible is meant to be heavily interpreted. It's a pity nobody agrees on how or why to interpret it. If the part about god creating the world in 7 days in false, one wonders what else is.
to recap your post: 0- You need to learn respect and civil discussion. Let's see who is the idiot.
1- "addons are not needed". Your proof: you know people who play with a few of them. Lesson: a few = 0 ???
2- One of the best features of the interface is the ability to do addons...wait, I thought we didn't need them ?
3- Yes, blizzard tries to copy succesful addons. Too bad their version is so bad compared to the original addon (eg, compare grid vs blizzard's raid frames...)
4- You're totally missing the point of Addons, which is to make the game do things "your way", whatever that is, and not force "blizzard's way" down everyone's throat. So yes, I regret Blizzard actually diminishing the abitlity of players to have things "their way", esp. since blizzard don't for the most part offer good alternatives.
FYI, I no longer play WoW, but I do spend some time thinking about what went wrong.
You must not be a player though: you seem to think addons replace skill, when they are there mainly to supplement it (ie lag estimation, dot timers...), make a better interface (auction house/mailboxes/pets/mounts/gear/bank management, movable action bars/map/, spam filter...). A bossmod addon is indeed pretty much required for raiding.
I work in an IT consulting company, and I'm seeing a strong move away from C/C++, to Java, among our customers.
Let me qualify that a bit: very technical developments (games, drivers, graphics stuff...) seem set to remain C/C++. The rest (all business apps) are moving over to Java and C#.
There still is some market for pure Web development (php, AJAX...), but not as much as Jav, and more in IT companies than at end-users'. Mobile phone development is still very much in flux, a bunch of proprietary platforms.
Furthermore, when I'm renting out devs/consultants, my customers look not only at the bare language experience, but also at experience with the platforms including libraries/tools...: not Java but J2EE+Jboss... It may serve you well, instead of listing C++ and Java on your resume, to have Java + J2EE +... other enterprise Java tools. You're not hedging your bets, but you look like you provide more immediate value.
Marylin Monroe seems to be advocating RoR, though:
"Salome did it with veils. Abe Lincoln did it with rails. Toledo did it with scales The Chinese built that Wall.... They'll give you medals if, They'll love your high notes if, You'll meet the Colonel if, You'll rule the barnyard if,
Really, the news is that WoW (especially high end PVE and PVP) is not playable without a few addons (5 ?), and is really much better if you have a bunch of them (I have 20-30).
Blizzard does not even offer an AddonStore, or an addon update tool.
Blizzard is trying to have it both ways: 1- having a crappy client that is so lacking in so many respects that add-ons are at minimum an appreciable comfort, but really more of a vital necessity; Blizzard is counting on hackers to fill the gaps, which they usually do much better than blizzard's efforts. 2- preventing devs from selling their work, or requesting donations at all within the game. At minimum, allowing for a reminder that "The Autoroxx Addon survives thanks to your donations, go to... to contribute" when logging in would be... elegant.
Blizzard should implement an AddonStore modelled on the iPhone's Appstore, with free and not free addons, and share revenue; and also implement an auto-update feature to keep addons up to date.
If a lot of people are willing to pay for an addon, it is a strong signal that the addon is useful, and blizzard should either license it to include in their vanilla client, or try to duplicate it.
The best reasons I can think of why Blizzard is not doing that yet is 1- they actually want players to visit those addon sites, that are owned by gold sellers. I'm growing very suspicious of the relationship between Blizzard and gold sellers, given how little they do to rein them in. 2- they know they can't do addons right (right now, they seem to be unable to do basic class design right), and just want a free ride on the back of unpaid devs.
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some may have had tax-funded apnea training recently.
100s of miles of wind turbines are probably more resillient than a few tens of nuclear stations. At least vs terrorism/war... maybe not vs natural disasters.
are you sure you didn't get b) and c) interverted in the "answers" line ?
I already type "g ATI R740" in the adress bar of Opera when I want Google to tell me if ATI's latest is available yat, or "w Godly Hammer of Roxxoriness" when I want to search WoWHead for that item ?
Not really. The church has long been a powerful financial/political/educational machine, one of the few accepted carrers for children of the elite. For all those reasons, intelligent and educated people often had some involvement, at some point, with the church, apart from possible religious convictions.
That is no longer the case though, or not as strongly. We no longer have to deal with that conflict and jump though hoops to try and make science without angering paymasters / teachers / bosses.
Work will be a major, if not THE major, once sleep is taken out, part of your life. Doing something you enjoy might be of value.
laws allowing to retaliate against China would, I think, be unfair in the same laws do not apply vs other governements including our own... warantless illegal wiretapping anyone ?
China is simply following on the US's footsteps.
Sadly, I'm beginning to think that the percieved liberal bias in the media is due to the media (minus Fox News) trying to be somewhat intelligent and empathetic, and grassroot conservatism trying to dumb things down and putting everything in terms of good vs evil, us vs them, as much as possible.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index is frightening.
Fox News' political views are mainly a marketing decision to cater/pander to a very badly served audience.
Have you ever read The Economist ? These guys are economic conservative, and social liberals. Pretty much the opposite of Fox News: they advocate gay marriage, abortion...
I find in particular that they try to separate facts from opinions, and to be reasonably pragmatic.
Sample of articles for this week:
Mr. Obama's first 2 months: http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13362078
Religious people and death: http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13315834
Funding impacting a research paper: http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13361480
Online dating and the crisis: http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13381506
I'm not sure. It's illegal to discriminate based on religion, sexual preferrences..., but is it illegal to ask about them ?
"bible" should just be replaced by $SACREDTEXT
1- Naming it Colbert is ridiculous and fun. We need more of that !
2- Please, link to the web site that instantly and completely unveils every dead person's complete life, actions and thoughts. It's not as if we regularly had nasty surprises...
aren't they making oodles of money, which is what counts ... to them ?
1- They ARE preventing devs from selling addons. The only monetary contributions they tolerate are 1- voluntary, 2- requested only on the web site (not by the addon itself), 3- not complemented by in-game adds, even just one request for donations at the addon launch (which is NOT my definition of spam)
Too me, a crappy client is one that doesn't do what I need, or does it in an inefficient/irritating way. WoW's basic client certainly meets all those criteria. Maybe other MMORPGS are worse, but WoW without addons.. would anybody play it, especially HL ?
Again, Blizzard is free-riding on the addons devs efforts.
2- No. The companies you think of are gold sellers, who use addons and database web sites as a marketing conduit to garner sales. No addon/DB website is either independant nor financially viable by itself. Blizzard is channeling players to the golds sellers via the addon sites.
Furthermore, some addons are on one site, some on another, some have an autoupdater, some don't... a unified, universal addon repository would be peachy.
3- The liability argument is bollocks. Is Steam liable for the quality of all the games it distributes ? Blizzard considers itself not even liable for the barebones WoW client. And if it were, liable for what exactly ?
4- All I'm saying is pretty much everytime Blizzard has tried to integrate an addon's functionnality in their own basic client, the result has been underwhelming: who uses their calendar, their voice chat system (not really an addon, but still), their threat manager (in raids), their lag estimation, their raid grid,... ? And many of the better addons, they haven't even tried to integrate (auctioneer, HUDs, bongos...)
About ability to balance.. you must be kidding ?
The "I got it first ! now you DIE" argument.
Or maybe, after taking care of the supply side by invading Iraq, the US should start taking care of the demand side by invading India and regressing them to the stone age ?
link: http://oldcomputermuseum.com/apple_3.html
Come on... when will MS stop coyping Apple ??
Back when I was learning marketing 20 years ago, we were told the trade off was between performance and reliability. I guess features vs reliability makes sense too, but a few MHz and thus ÂF or C less would have made wonders.
Thanks for the link.
Indeed. I find there are just too many factual impossibilitites in the bible (and so many hateful statements).
Your crucifixion example: you think it's true because people believe in it... That makes a whole lot of other things true: Scientology, Arianism... I'll leave you to deal with those ones....
I know the some say the bible is meant to be heavily interpreted. It's a pity nobody agrees on how or why to interpret it. If the part about god creating the world in 7 days in false, one wonders what else is.
Again, I no longer play WOW
to recap your post:
0- You need to learn respect and civil discussion. Let's see who is the idiot.
1- "addons are not needed". Your proof: you know people who play with a few of them. Lesson: a few = 0 ???
2- One of the best features of the interface is the ability to do addons.. .wait, I thought we didn't need them ?
3- Yes, blizzard tries to copy succesful addons. Too bad their version is so bad compared to the original addon (eg, compare grid vs blizzard's raid frames...)
4- You're totally missing the point of Addons, which is to make the game do things "your way", whatever that is, and not force "blizzard's way" down everyone's throat. So yes, I regret Blizzard actually diminishing the abitlity of players to have things "their way", esp. since blizzard don't for the most part offer good alternatives.
FYI, I no longer play WoW, but I do spend some time thinking about what went wrong.
You must not be a player though: you seem to think addons replace skill, when they are there mainly to supplement it (ie lag estimation, dot timers...), make a better interface (auction house/mailboxes/pets/mounts/gear/bank management, movable action bars/map/, spam filter...). A bossmod addon is indeed pretty much required for raiding.
... some people make software actually worth buying ?
- the update tool should be supllied by blizzard, and standard
- payment for addons should be at the devs' discretion. Should they always work for free for you ?
I work in an IT consulting company, and I'm seeing a strong move away from C/C++, to Java, among our customers.
Let me qualify that a bit: very technical developments (games, drivers, graphics stuff...) seem set to remain C/C++. The rest (all business apps) are moving over to Java and C#.
There still is some market for pure Web development (php, AJAX...), but not as much as Jav, and more in IT companies than at end-users'. Mobile phone development is still very much in flux, a bunch of proprietary platforms.
Furthermore, when I'm renting out devs/consultants, my customers look not only at the bare language experience, but also at experience with the platforms including libraries/tools...: not Java but J2EE+Jboss... It may serve you well, instead of listing C++ and Java on your resume, to have Java + J2EE +... other enterprise Java tools. You're not hedging your bets, but you look like you provide more immediate value.
Marylin Monroe seems to be advocating RoR, though:
"Salome did it with veils. ...
Abe Lincoln did it with rails.
Toledo did it with scales
The Chinese built that Wall.
They'll give you medals if,
They'll love your high notes if,
You'll meet the Colonel if,
You'll rule the barnyard if,
If you specialize!
I specialize."
Really, the news is that WoW (especially high end PVE and PVP) is not playable without a few addons (5 ?), and is really much better if you have a bunch of them (I have 20-30).
Blizzard does not even offer an AddonStore, or an addon update tool.
Blizzard is trying to have it both ways: ... to contribute" when logging in would be... elegant.
1- having a crappy client that is so lacking in so many respects that add-ons are at minimum an appreciable comfort, but really more of a vital necessity; Blizzard is counting on hackers to fill the gaps, which they usually do much better than blizzard's efforts.
2- preventing devs from selling their work, or requesting donations at all within the game. At minimum, allowing for a reminder that "The Autoroxx Addon survives thanks to your donations, go to
Blizzard should implement an AddonStore modelled on the iPhone's Appstore, with free and not free addons, and share revenue; and also implement an auto-update feature to keep addons up to date.
If a lot of people are willing to pay for an addon, it is a strong signal that the addon is useful, and blizzard should either license it to include in their vanilla client, or try to duplicate it.
The best reasons I can think of why Blizzard is not doing that yet is
1- they actually want players to visit those addon sites, that are owned by gold sellers. I'm growing very suspicious of the relationship between Blizzard and gold sellers, given how little they do to rein them in.
2- they know they can't do addons right (right now, they seem to be unable to do basic class design right), and just want a free ride on the back of unpaid devs.