Compare that with an RTS or an [FPS] (that's what you meant, right?), where using somebody else's character doesn't really help you at all.
Iduno. TF2 has done this very very well. Character determines many things, including how high you can jump. If you spend a lot of time at the game, you get new capabilities. But every new capability is a tradeoff, and a beginning player using your items wouldn't necessarily do any better than without. If there were RPGs where time spent provided you more very well balanced tradeoffs to choose between, that would be perhaps interesting. And hard to develop.
The problem with too many RPGs is that easy encounters are easy, and hard encounters are impossible until you level up, at which point they are easy. It FEELS like you are gaining skill at the game, which is enjoyable, but in fact your character is just tougher. You didn't learn shit.
It makes sense for your character to change over time: that makes the game keep feeling new. But the best system of all is one where your new characteristics are a tradeoff, and every player's capabilities remain somewhat balanced. Success should be from solving a problem in novel ways, not grinding. Like TF2, StarCraft. It is of course very hard to build games like this.
This has come up for me playing crap iPhone games. Since there isn't enough development time for them to put in real challenge, every goddamned thing has a level up mechanic. And certain things are just unbeatable until you level up, and then they are beatable through button mashing. It is lame as hell and apparently the customers don't care.
I'm not sure I follow your point. What you are describing is the result of a decade of anti-trust litigation against Microsoft. Had they been allowed, they certainly might have attempted to prevent you from installing Firefox or Opera.
If you log in, you can change your discussion viewing preferences to disable "Interactive Discussions aka D2". This will return you to classic/. style discussions, which were perfect.
Ok, perfect aside from the content. But an excellent software solution. Then, of course, you should change your threshold & highlight threshold so you never see comments under +4, and assign a +1 "reason modifier" to all downmod reasons. (Downmodding is great for discouraging poor behavior, but doesn't actually reflect what is worth reading). Reparent highly rated comments & do not display scores are nice but up to you. The rest is required to make/. work, imnsho.
I think CmdrTaco once suggested setting it so that you have a lower comment threshold that is increased the moment you've got over 50 comments on your screen, or something, but I don't know how to set that up. Comment limit? Index spill? I forget. I prefer to wait until the discussion has identified valuable content.
Of course, the whole point is that you get to decide which of your contacts can reach you at which phone. You can make it so that if they're not in your contact list, they get voice mail only.
You can also screen callers (they state their name to a recording) based on whether they are in your contact list or whether they are blocking caller ID.
Yes! For example, my contract is over in December 2009. If I would like to renew now for 2 years, I only have to pay $499 for the 32GB phone.
Lucky me!
Of course, the real $$ in all of these smartphones is the monthly service. So the primary reason I am not dying to pay $500 is that I am not dying to sign up for $2400 over the next two years.
Eventually, Google Voice will port in #s. That'll be an interesting day. Then maybe they'll offer iPhone plans at mifi prices.
I'm increasingly amazed by the willingness of people to bitch and moan about incompetent and inefficient bureaucrats, while at the same time, insisting on turning over more and more important societal functions to these same bureaucrats.
You are talking about more than one person. They may have different opinions. But still,
It makes perfect sense.
They elect people who bitch and moan about incompetent and inefficient bureaucrats, and are then surprised when those people are not competent and efficient bureaucrats. It is almost as if bitching and moaning are not adequate qualification for doing a better job.
They say they want to drown the federal government in the bathtub, and then it turns out they aren't really worried about making it run more efficiently. Who would have thought?
MySQL's only feature bullet point ever was that it could be had free as in speech and beer. If they hadn't open sourced it, they wouldn't have had a product.
If you've got a phenomenally successful software product that people are lining up to buy despite it being closed-source and expensive... well shit, I wouldn't open source that either. I hope your competition continues sucking.
YES. That is the old definition of cyber attack, my brother. Your console cowboy isn't worth a damn without some muscle behind him. Case wouldn't have gotten anywhere without Molly and the Panther Moderns.
As commenters have already pointed out on those blog posts, push IMAP will require that Nokia stores your credentials on servers that check for your new email as a proxy.
This request is https. If, during setup, you asked for push IMAP, or any number of other imaginable features for your mail account, sending your credentials to a Nokia or wireless carrier server will be necessary.
Actually... if it's https... how the hell can this guy tell what the URL request is? Has he patched their email client to snitch?
But... people did get bent out of shape over the snail ads. This is the world's-most-famous-longest-lived-flamewar-ever. And the media is delighted to sell you whichever side of the story makes you most likely to
buy their stupid magazine or
read their stupid advertisements.
Obviously, that means they are happy to give you both sides of the flamewar, and not much else.
Iduno... I think the PDF is worth way the hell more to me:
I can print out the MM pages for the monsters I'm using tonight & write all over them.
I can print out the PH/PH2 powers & an empty character sheet stat block & paste them onto notecards for my players.
I can print out just the pages I'm using for the delve we're doing tonight.
While planning my campaign, I can use text search across all published 4e material.
PDFs + cheap inkjet refills = way more handy than the books.
My biggest disappointment with this whole story is that I had no idea there was a legal way to buy these PDFs in the past. If I did, I'd have immediately purchased the official PH PDF, because the one I stole has a shitty table of contents.
I purchased hardcover 3 PHs, 1 DMG, 1 MM, 1 PH2, and my players have purchased 2 further PH2s on their own. Money is not the problem here. I will buy any book/PDF that strikes my fancy. I expect to be playing dungeon delves pretty frequently, but the dungeon delve book would do nothing but take up space on my shelf. The PDF is better.
The only valuable promise from Java so far has been programmer interchangeability. Since Apple sells devices and software to people before companies, that is not as desirable for them as it is for enterprise vendors like Sun & IBM.
'This is an affluent area,' protester Paul Jacobs said. 'We've already had three burglaries locally in the past six weeks. If our houses are plastered all over Google it's an invitation for more criminals to strike. I was determined to make a stand, so I called the police.'"
Don't take pictures of our houses! We are hella rich! We have hella money, just lying around! Taking pictures is just like begging people to steal from us!
That is deeply related to the Streisand Effect, if not the same thing.
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Iduno. TF2 has done this very very well. Character determines many things, including how high you can jump. If you spend a lot of time at the game, you get new capabilities. But every new capability is a tradeoff, and a beginning player using your items wouldn't necessarily do any better than without. If there were RPGs where time spent provided you more very well balanced tradeoffs to choose between, that would be perhaps interesting. And hard to develop.
The problem with too many RPGs is that easy encounters are easy, and hard encounters are impossible until you level up, at which point they are easy. It FEELS like you are gaining skill at the game, which is enjoyable, but in fact your character is just tougher. You didn't learn shit.
It makes sense for your character to change over time: that makes the game keep feeling new. But the best system of all is one where your new characteristics are a tradeoff, and every player's capabilities remain somewhat balanced. Success should be from solving a problem in novel ways, not grinding. Like TF2, StarCraft. It is of course very hard to build games like this.
This has come up for me playing crap iPhone games. Since there isn't enough development time for them to put in real challenge, every goddamned thing has a level up mechanic. And certain things are just unbeatable until you level up, and then they are beatable through button mashing. It is lame as hell and apparently the customers don't care.
I'm not sure I follow your point. What you are describing is the result of a decade of anti-trust litigation against Microsoft. Had they been allowed, they certainly might have attempted to prevent you from installing Firefox or Opera.
Christ, 20 responses and no answers:
If you log in, you can change your discussion viewing preferences to disable "Interactive Discussions aka D2". This will return you to classic /. style discussions, which were perfect.
Ok, perfect aside from the content. But an excellent software solution. Then, of course, you should change your threshold & highlight threshold so you never see comments under +4, and assign a +1 "reason modifier" to all downmod reasons. (Downmodding is great for discouraging poor behavior, but doesn't actually reflect what is worth reading). Reparent highly rated comments & do not display scores are nice but up to you. The rest is required to make /. work, imnsho.
I think CmdrTaco once suggested setting it so that you have a lower comment threshold that is increased the moment you've got over 50 comments on your screen, or something, but I don't know how to set that up. Comment limit? Index spill? I forget. I prefer to wait until the discussion has identified valuable content.
Of course, the whole point is that you get to decide which of your contacts can reach you at which phone. You can make it so that if they're not in your contact list, they get voice mail only.
You can also screen callers (they state their name to a recording) based on whether they are in your contact list or whether they are blocking caller ID.
Yes! For example, my contract is over in December 2009. If I would like to renew now for 2 years, I only have to pay $499 for the 32GB phone.
Lucky me!
Of course, the real $$ in all of these smartphones is the monthly service. So the primary reason I am not dying to pay $500 is that I am not dying to sign up for $2400 over the next two years.
Eventually, Google Voice will port in #s. That'll be an interesting day. Then maybe they'll offer iPhone plans at mifi prices.
And did everyone see the "curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal" error message that popped up in the lower right when the demo crashed?
These are avoidable, but I run into them constantly.
I thought you could totally do that in webkit w/ whatever this: http://webkit.org/blog/55/high-dpi-web-sites/ turned into. Did that feature ever happen?
Way ahead of you.
http://adsweep.org/
They elect people who bitch and moan about incompetent and inefficient bureaucrats, and are then surprised when those people are not competent and efficient bureaucrats. It is almost as if bitching and moaning are not adequate qualification for doing a better job.
They say they want to drown the federal government in the bathtub, and then it turns out they aren't really worried about making it run more efficiently. Who would have thought?
Your control over your likeness is created by US State law. In California, it lasts for decades after your death.
At some point, you could have a Paul Newman remake against his will.
MySQL's only feature bullet point ever was that it could be had free as in speech and beer. If they hadn't open sourced it, they wouldn't have had a product.
If you've got a phenomenally successful software product that people are lining up to buy despite it being closed-source and expensive... well shit, I wouldn't open source that either. I hope your competition continues sucking.
Once x.org started, the switch was light speed, but xfree86 was godawful for a long, long time before that.
YES. That is the old definition of cyber attack, my brother. Your console cowboy isn't worth a damn without some muscle behind him. Case wouldn't have gotten anywhere without Molly and the Panther Moderns.
Or just regular blackmail:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/20/1427259
I assumed these were both the same story at first. But the YRO story was 2005, and this one was a few weeks ago.
Seriously? Always?
They are more economical until they have locked in their market, and then they are considerably less economical. Which is obviously the point.
Thank you. Thought I was going crazy for a second.
So, https doesn't encrypt the URL request? I thought the only thing visible to a MitM is the domain.
As commenters have already pointed out on those blog posts, push IMAP will require that Nokia stores your credentials on servers that check for your new email as a proxy.
This request is https. If, during setup, you asked for push IMAP, or any number of other imaginable features for your mail account, sending your credentials to a Nokia or wireless carrier server will be necessary.
Actually... if it's https... how the hell can this guy tell what the URL request is? Has he patched their email client to snitch?
But... people did get bent out of shape over the snail ads. This is the world's-most-famous-longest-lived-flamewar-ever. And the media is delighted to sell you whichever side of the story makes you most likely to
Obviously, that means they are happy to give you both sides of the flamewar, and not much else.
Iduno... I think the PDF is worth way the hell more to me:
PDFs + cheap inkjet refills = way more handy than the books.
My biggest disappointment with this whole story is that I had no idea there was a legal way to buy these PDFs in the past. If I did, I'd have immediately purchased the official PH PDF, because the one I stole has a shitty table of contents.
I purchased hardcover 3 PHs, 1 DMG, 1 MM, 1 PH2, and my players have purchased 2 further PH2s on their own. Money is not the problem here. I will buy any book/PDF that strikes my fancy. I expect to be playing dungeon delves pretty frequently, but the dungeon delve book would do nothing but take up space on my shelf. The PDF is better.
The only valuable promise from Java so far has been programmer interchangeability. Since Apple sells devices and software to people before companies, that is not as desirable for them as it is for enterprise vendors like Sun & IBM.
Don't take pictures of our houses! We are hella rich! We have hella money, just lying around! Taking pictures is just like begging people to steal from us!
That is deeply related to the Streisand Effect, if not the same thing.