It funded, everyone involved got their copy of the game and it's available for purchase in the traditional manner now. A friend of mine bought it and we played this past weekend. It was a lot of fun, incidentally.
I played on CF for pretty much the whole second age and staffed for a while towards the end of that time.
I have to say, sometimes in WoW I miss things about CF. One thing in particular... You see, I'm on an RP server...
Just once, I'd like Nazmorghul or Jullias or Cador to fade into existence while some moron was shouting OOC stuff in the middle of Ironforge, give an appropriate speech and then slay the offender. Maybe eat their corpse, while we're talking wish fulfillment.
I've seen it. It was only on one version, which was not in any of the places near where I lived. On a trip to Las Vegas, however, I found a machine that could do it. Essentially, you were locked in your head-tilted-back frame and unable to do anything, moving back and forth as the Guile played moved.
Well, Mr. Smith, when some crazed Slashdot reader takes your address from the comments in this thread and drops by your home or place of business to beat you severely, may I be the one to have all your utilities cancelled as punishment for allowing it to happen to you?
Web servers can be used for purely private purposes. Everyone agrees that if the site is password-protected, that's a sign of it being private.
But no web server that I'm familiar with is passworded by default...still, people can mean for a web site to be only for use by their Rotary Club. Perhaps the site contains star charts, almanac data and a VRML replica of the vault of Christian Rosycross. Things that might interest other people.
So they just don't tell anyone about it. But one of the authorized users links to it from their home page, so it gets into the search engines.
Now there's a website out there, you can find it in a search for something else...and there's nothing on the site saying either that it's for public use or that it's private...so should you be arrested for using it?
I say this as a security-conscious sysadmin who has to protect a large wireless network.
Ender's Game. Yes, other groups of people like him for other reasons...but at Comic-Con, people were overwhelmingly bringing copies of Ender's Game for him to sign, says a friend who was at that booth. Eventually he refused to sign anything but his new book. (He's a real people person, you know.)
My girlfriend and I had some success with name speculation in City of Heroes, so for World of Warcraft we carefully looked through all the names to find the least 'wicked' one.
We haven't had any problems at all on Feathermoon.
The increased box sales are never going to pay off more than monthly fees for any popular MMORPG. There are two reasons...the total market of people who will play an MMORPG isn't of unlimited size...and four months of subscription is better than an extra box sold.
But more importantly...costs per user are ongoing. You'll never make money that way...the hardware and bandwidth are just too much.
Guild Wars isn't trying to make all their money off the initial box sale, however. Not at all. They're going to make it by selling expansion packs or "chapters".
They claim that you won't be less powerful if you don't buy the chapters, but then they use Magic: The Gathering as an example. And as I imagine most of the Slashdot crowd knows, that person with a suitcase full of Magic cards doesn't just have 'more options' than someone with one pack of cards. They have 'better combinations' which are indeed more powerful.
All the same, I wish the Guild Wars people luck. A new model could shake things up nicely.
Uh...so you support ammending the constitution to make all the de facto federal powers de jure? No? Then it seems to me you're at least somewhat anti-federalist in this context. It's not necessarily a bad thing. I imagine most of the original Federalists would be surprised by the state of our government today.
Are we an entire nation, then, of people who cannot read? None of the politicians, none of the judges...?
(Seriously, saying one doesn't need to be anti-federalist to hold those views is like saying one doesn't need to be anti-Catholic to know that the pope has no power to speak Ex Cathedra. Is there something wrong with being anti-federalist?)
"No State shall...make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts..."
So the states cannot declare anything else a legal tender(but as they can't mint their own coins...) but it doesn't matter because the law being cited is a federal one.
People citing this point are often anti-federalists who believe the commerce clause has been abused like a White House intern. That might even be true, but it's the law at this time. If you think the law is wrong, protest. Get yourself arrested. Appeal to the very highest courts...and pray.
I never said most were hired this way. I just wanted to make it clear that abuse is easy and possible.
Also, those lawyers that handle it? They're making sure you comply with the letter of the law. That's all.
I'm not against the H1b process. I think stealing other countries' best people is a great idea. It's part of what made our country great. But anyway...
The company I work for has many H1b people. They're great people. Smart, educated and competent. However, we cheated to hire most of them. What happens is Jim, Manager of Software(as an example) wants to hire Bob the code jockey from China, so he tells HR that.
HR runs it past the immigration lawyer and they write up a job description which specifies exactly Bob's years of education, exactly Bob's project experience and probably Bob's shoe color and zodiac sign. They then post that job description at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the leopard". Oh. They also post it on our web site... but nobody will ever see it. We're not a big company, nobody ever looks at that part of our web site. It might also appear in a local newspaper or something. I'm not sure.
Some time later, they regrettably couldn't fill the job with anyone local, so they hire Bob. No, this isn't speculation. I've seen it happen a dozen times in the past few years. It's a science now. It's not just Bob from China, either. There are assorted European countries we hit up too and one place in the Middle East.
Again, I like most of the people we hire this way, but it's a mockery of the process...and I strongly suspect a lot of companies do it the same way. Find H1b candidate first, fail to fill position with existing worker second, click the 'import' button.
CoH is the first game I've noticed since Asheron's Call to really provide large amounts of new content on an ongoing basis. That's great. So far we've seen amazing amounts of new stuff. Will there be new powers or costume pieces any time soon?
People are reacting without actually knowing anything. Many people in the community rail against this or that change they've heard about without considering the new rules as a whole. The SRD is free, go read it.
Though reacting before reading is a pretty common/. problem.
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1225737959/miskatonic-school-for-girls-deck-building-game
It funded, everyone involved got their copy of the game and it's available for purchase in the traditional manner now. A friend of mine bought it and we played this past weekend. It was a lot of fun, incidentally.
I played on CF for pretty much the whole second age and staffed for a while towards the end of that time.
I have to say, sometimes in WoW I miss things about CF. One thing in particular... You see, I'm on an RP server...
Just once, I'd like Nazmorghul or Jullias or Cador to fade into existence while some moron was shouting OOC stuff in the middle of Ironforge, give an appropriate speech and then slay the offender. Maybe eat their corpse, while we're talking wish fulfillment.
I've seen it. It was only on one version, which was not in any of the places near where I lived. On a trip to Las Vegas, however, I found a machine that could do it. Essentially, you were locked in your head-tilted-back frame and unable to do anything, moving back and forth as the Guile played moved.
Well, Mr. Smith, when some crazed Slashdot reader takes your address from the comments in this thread and drops by your home or place of business to beat you severely, may I be the one to have all your utilities cancelled as punishment for allowing it to happen to you?
Companies can get discounts on insurance if they drug test employees, I believe.
Web servers can be used for purely private purposes. Everyone agrees that if the site is password-protected, that's a sign of it being private.
But no web server that I'm familiar with is passworded by default...still, people can mean for a web site to be only for use by their Rotary Club. Perhaps the site contains star charts, almanac data and a VRML replica of the vault of Christian Rosycross. Things that might interest other people.
So they just don't tell anyone about it. But one of the authorized users links to it from their home page, so it gets into the search engines.
Now there's a website out there, you can find it in a search for something else...and there's nothing on the site saying either that it's for public use or that it's private...so should you be arrested for using it?
I say this as a security-conscious sysadmin who has to protect a large wireless network.
Ender's Game. Yes, other groups of people like him for other reasons...but at Comic-Con, people were overwhelmingly bringing copies of Ender's Game for him to sign, says a friend who was at that booth. Eventually he refused to sign anything but his new book. (He's a real people person, you know.)
And yet, we have no game based on either the Battle School game or the Command School simulators? For shame.
That might be, however, because he's bitter that the book of his that everyone loved was not the one he wanted it to be...
Everyone knows Americans learn geography by military deployment. Of course we know about the DPRK/RoK split...we have troops there.
My girlfriend and I had some success with name speculation in City of Heroes, so for World of Warcraft we carefully looked through all the names to find the least 'wicked' one.
We haven't had any problems at all on Feathermoon.
The increased box sales are never going to pay off more than monthly fees for any popular MMORPG. There are two reasons...the total market of people who will play an MMORPG isn't of unlimited size...and four months of subscription is better than an extra box sold.
But more importantly...costs per user are ongoing. You'll never make money that way...the hardware and bandwidth are just too much.
Guild Wars isn't trying to make all their money off the initial box sale, however. Not at all. They're going to make it by selling expansion packs or "chapters".
They claim that you won't be less powerful if you don't buy the chapters, but then they use Magic: The Gathering as an example. And as I imagine most of the Slashdot crowd knows, that person with a suitcase full of Magic cards doesn't just have 'more options' than someone with one pack of cards. They have 'better combinations' which are indeed more powerful.
All the same, I wish the Guild Wars people luck. A new model could shake things up nicely.
Uh...so you support ammending the constitution to make all the de facto federal powers de jure? No? Then it seems to me you're at least somewhat anti-federalist in this context. It's not necessarily a bad thing. I imagine most of the original Federalists would be surprised by the state of our government today.
Are we an entire nation, then, of people who cannot read? None of the politicians, none of the judges...?
(Seriously, saying one doesn't need to be anti-federalist to hold those views is like saying one doesn't need to be anti-Catholic to know that the pope has no power to speak Ex Cathedra. Is there something wrong with being anti-federalist?)
"No State shall...make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts..."
So the states cannot declare anything else a legal tender(but as they can't mint their own coins...) but it doesn't matter because the law being cited is a federal one.
People citing this point are often anti-federalists who believe the commerce clause has been abused like a White House intern. That might even be true, but it's the law at this time. If you think the law is wrong, protest. Get yourself arrested. Appeal to the very highest courts...and pray.
What they do makes me happy when I think how simple my setup is by comparison.
In this article? In...2001? It's very neat, of course, but...
The terms 'pimp' and 'ho' are more like 'rake' and 'slut' in common usage today.
Of course, a hoe is not a ho', which is why his answer was, while funny, not valid. They are two different words, unlike rake.
It's the first thing I thought of, I must admit.
I never said most were hired this way. I just wanted to make it clear that abuse is easy and possible.
Also, those lawyers that handle it? They're making sure you comply with the letter of the law. That's all.
I'm not against the H1b process. I think stealing other countries' best people is a great idea. It's part of what made our country great. But anyway...
The company I work for has many H1b people. They're great people. Smart, educated and competent. However, we cheated to hire most of them. What happens is Jim, Manager of Software(as an example) wants to hire Bob the code jockey from China, so he tells HR that.
... but nobody will ever see it. We're not a big company, nobody ever looks at that part of our web site. It might also appear in a local newspaper or something. I'm not sure.
HR runs it past the immigration lawyer and they write up a job description which specifies exactly Bob's years of education, exactly Bob's project experience and probably Bob's shoe color and zodiac sign. They then post that job description at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the leopard". Oh. They also post it on our web site
Some time later, they regrettably couldn't fill the job with anyone local, so they hire Bob. No, this isn't speculation. I've seen it happen a dozen times in the past few years. It's a science now. It's not just Bob from China, either. There are assorted European countries we hit up too and one place in the Middle East.
Again, I like most of the people we hire this way, but it's a mockery of the process...and I strongly suspect a lot of companies do it the same way. Find H1b candidate first, fail to fill position with existing worker second, click the 'import' button.
CoH is the first game I've noticed since Asheron's Call to really provide large amounts of new content on an ongoing basis. That's great. So far we've seen amazing amounts of new stuff. Will there be new powers or costume pieces any time soon?
We're legislating technology most people haven't even seen yet.
What about the bombing of London and other parts of England?
...but nobody wants to do it. Even the programmers don't seem to want to, sadly.
People are reacting without actually knowing anything. Many people in the community rail against this or that change they've heard about without considering the new rules as a whole. The SRD is free, go read it.
/. problem.
Though reacting before reading is a pretty common
...and that's without even having read the SRD or new books. Alas.
Interesting...but I don't think that Martin Van Buren, John F Kennedy and George Bush fell out of the same family tree.