I was introduced to Netrek on Solaris machines in college before I did any serious programming or even knew what the heck the internet was. I haven't played for years, but there are still a few servers running out there far from the game's prime in the mid-90s. Interestingly, it died a death that I've seen repeated in many on-line forums. The veterans show impatient arrogance and annoyance to the new players and drive them away. Then, the community slowly rots from the bottom up as only the old-timers hang around until they eventually fade out as well.
I'd never heard of the Descent series until it came with a networking package I bought. D3 gave me motion sickness, but it was so damned fun I played through it. Kudos on a great game.
This is something that bugged me about the 1st movie in a nostalgic way. Bumblebee was the dorky little scout, not the ass-kicking hotrod. Even if they had to go w/ a GM product, they could have made it one of their smaller cars like an Aveo.
Why do people keep slamming GMs cars? Their problem was how they invested their earnings. Note, Ford produces practically the same stuff and didn't need a bailout.
We've already spent a bundle on them and this latest "cut" was mediocre compared to how much we've already invested. On top of that, I expect the F-35 to get ample funding. And, I doubt it's VSTOL capabilities will approach anything I ever saw in Battlefield 2.
If I were the CIA, I'd pressure Blizzard to hold off on changes for another 2-3 months. I guarantee you there will be protesters marching in the streets and demanding regime change!
The problem I've seen is taking a pay cut for the team usually doesn't extend to everyone. Look at what just happened with the pay cuts at the New York Times! The CEO walks away with a bonus for saving money slashing your salary.
Circa 1991, a friend of mine would sit at the same computer and take turns controlling the UI for a game that must have been the one of first to add a UI to the text adventure format as it was such a simple wrapper for an obvious text adventure engine. It's DnD-ish in storyline allowing you to roll up characters with a handful of classes. The UI memorably showed a representation of your direction options like a mouse maze. I can't recall much about details, but you start out with your party in a slave pen and slowly fight your way out where you find a kingdom with continents and cities. As I recall, there was an element of free will rather than scripted adventure as you could wander the map as you saw fit. To me, the game is still a benchmark by which I measure what a leap modern MMOs like WoW made.
What the movie producers did is sly enough to take a lot of legal wrangling to get a settlement out of them. So, you can't call it fraud. My point is that there's so little regulation of entertainment contracts that behavior like this is ambiguous enough to not deem as fraud and I think it should be.
My point being that they're using clever accounting to blur the line between legal and illegal. Same thing happened to Stan Lee and the Spiderman movie. Whenever that starts to happen regularly, you need laws to make what's wrong explicit.
You don't have to make it "punishable by death," just flipping make it ILLEGAL! I'm so tired of hearing about a-hole musician managers like Klein ripping off artists and swindling them out of song rights, talent agents taking their pounds of flesh from artists and athletes, and trusted personal financial advisors diverting funds from their clients to their own coffers. Just make it clearly ILLEGAL. Draw strong outlines around what compensation these people are allowed to make while in the service of their clients. Create template contracts that uninitiated people can use to protect themselves. As it stands, you need a lawyer and an accountant to make sure your lawyer and accountant aren't fucking you!
It's called "living in a country." And, sometimes those remote locations provide a service to the rest of us like remote refueling points, Alaskan oil wells, or agriculture that makes subsidizing their quality of life an overall bargain. You want Wild West unregulated living, Somalia is accepting visas.
Really, your password has to be two things: unguessable and unique. Unguessable in that no one can read a quick bio of you and start hammering out children's names or birthplaces and unique in that you're not sharing the same password across multiple hosts. That being said, I use the PC Tools Password tool to generate my passwords. However, this introduces a whole new problem as I now have to maintain and secure a file containing all of these impossible-to-remember passwords that represents the keys to my kingdom.
Translation, "give us more money or we'll drop this satellite on your heads." This is the unsubtle protest of a bureaucrat trying to use the media to get the public incensed.
You're talking about food prices and farmers as if they're directly related. Unfortunately, they're NOT anymore. BigAgri has inserted itself as a greedy middleman there as well. In fact, the deregulation of the "Freedom to Farm" movement drove down prices on some produce quite a bit (by 1/4?), yet the middlemen and distributors just pocketed the difference and keep prices about the same. I'm in Kansas and small towns out here are being DECIMATED. There are little towns where there's basically no one but the old people and empty nesters and the economies are almost solely based on social security checks.
You must crunch numbers for Bill O'Reilly's anti-government rants. Firstly, there are a ton of government agencies generating relevant stats. It's going to take a large number of people to coordinate and validate figures for these agencies. Maybe you've never worked in the real world, but not every software project can be built by one person and run on the Linux box you have in your closet.
There's the caginess of veterans who know the best sniping spots and combinations of casts that'll set up an opponent for the fatality. There's also the developed muscle-memory that helps you cycle through weapons in a close-in fight while dodging bullets. Caginess is far more important to the mechanics of WoW, while reflexes are more important in Battlefield. But, you can't treat either as mutually exclusive. I could be a complete noob sitting in the best sniping spot in the game, but not have the coordination to get the kill shot from range. Or, I could have the fastest mouse in the west yet always go for the knife kill when a cagey vet knows that the pistol is the right call.
I guess the point is that just as in society, there are rules and there is etiquette. I'm a big Battlefield 2142 player and it drives me nuts when people do dickwad things that are perfectly legal within the confines of gameplay like RDX whoring, ditching choppers with passengers, or camping. The interesting thing to me has how these standards aren't uniform across all servers. Some call bitching about play that violates the spirit of the game as "whining." Others publish their own lists of custom rules on penalty of being kicked or banned. In the real world, my ex-girlfriend thought Bill Gates was a god because of his ruthless political acumen. Wall Street traders gloat about how they profit on loopholes in laws to their own profit (naked shorts anyone?). So, there will always be a gray area of frowned-upon behavior that will never be banned because a critical mass of "NO" votes will never be reached that would make breaches of etiquette unlawful.
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I was introduced to Netrek on Solaris machines in college before I did any serious programming or even knew what the heck the internet was. I haven't played for years, but there are still a few servers running out there far from the game's prime in the mid-90s. Interestingly, it died a death that I've seen repeated in many on-line forums. The veterans show impatient arrogance and annoyance to the new players and drive them away. Then, the community slowly rots from the bottom up as only the old-timers hang around until they eventually fade out as well.
I'd never heard of the Descent series until it came with a networking package I bought. D3 gave me motion sickness, but it was so damned fun I played through it. Kudos on a great game.
This is something that bugged me about the 1st movie in a nostalgic way. Bumblebee was the dorky little scout, not the ass-kicking hotrod. Even if they had to go w/ a GM product, they could have made it one of their smaller cars like an Aveo.
Why do people keep slamming GMs cars? Their problem was how they invested their earnings. Note, Ford produces practically the same stuff and didn't need a bailout.
We've already spent a bundle on them and this latest "cut" was mediocre compared to how much we've already invested. On top of that, I expect the F-35 to get ample funding. And, I doubt it's VSTOL capabilities will approach anything I ever saw in Battlefield 2.
If I were the CIA, I'd pressure Blizzard to hold off on changes for another 2-3 months. I guarantee you there will be protesters marching in the streets and demanding regime change!
Wow, my first thought was he must be on his deathbed and trying to scam his way into heaven. Then, I saw the first name.
Next time, Jupiter better get his damned beer when he tells him to!
On what planet did you read that voice actors on popular shows make $7,500/episode?
The problem I've seen is taking a pay cut for the team usually doesn't extend to everyone. Look at what just happened with the pay cuts at the New York Times! The CEO walks away with a bonus for saving money slashing your salary.
This is a geek site, excuse them for interpreting a statement logically.
Wow, not even close.
Circa 1991, a friend of mine would sit at the same computer and take turns controlling the UI for a game that must have been the one of first to add a UI to the text adventure format as it was such a simple wrapper for an obvious text adventure engine. It's DnD-ish in storyline allowing you to roll up characters with a handful of classes. The UI memorably showed a representation of your direction options like a mouse maze. I can't recall much about details, but you start out with your party in a slave pen and slowly fight your way out where you find a kingdom with continents and cities. As I recall, there was an element of free will rather than scripted adventure as you could wander the map as you saw fit. To me, the game is still a benchmark by which I measure what a leap modern MMOs like WoW made.
What the movie producers did is sly enough to take a lot of legal wrangling to get a settlement out of them. So, you can't call it fraud. My point is that there's so little regulation of entertainment contracts that behavior like this is ambiguous enough to not deem as fraud and I think it should be.
My point being that they're using clever accounting to blur the line between legal and illegal. Same thing happened to Stan Lee and the Spiderman movie. Whenever that starts to happen regularly, you need laws to make what's wrong explicit.
You don't have to make it "punishable by death," just flipping make it ILLEGAL! I'm so tired of hearing about a-hole musician managers like Klein ripping off artists and swindling them out of song rights, talent agents taking their pounds of flesh from artists and athletes, and trusted personal financial advisors diverting funds from their clients to their own coffers. Just make it clearly ILLEGAL. Draw strong outlines around what compensation these people are allowed to make while in the service of their clients. Create template contracts that uninitiated people can use to protect themselves. As it stands, you need a lawyer and an accountant to make sure your lawyer and accountant aren't fucking you!
It's called "living in a country." And, sometimes those remote locations provide a service to the rest of us like remote refueling points, Alaskan oil wells, or agriculture that makes subsidizing their quality of life an overall bargain. You want Wild West unregulated living, Somalia is accepting visas.
Wrong, they don't work because they're the product of a work of fiction.
Really, your password has to be two things: unguessable and unique. Unguessable in that no one can read a quick bio of you and start hammering out children's names or birthplaces and unique in that you're not sharing the same password across multiple hosts. That being said, I use the PC Tools Password tool to generate my passwords. However, this introduces a whole new problem as I now have to maintain and secure a file containing all of these impossible-to-remember passwords that represents the keys to my kingdom.
Translation, "give us more money or we'll drop this satellite on your heads." This is the unsubtle protest of a bureaucrat trying to use the media to get the public incensed.
You're talking about food prices and farmers as if they're directly related. Unfortunately, they're NOT anymore. BigAgri has inserted itself as a greedy middleman there as well. In fact, the deregulation of the "Freedom to Farm" movement drove down prices on some produce quite a bit (by 1/4?), yet the middlemen and distributors just pocketed the difference and keep prices about the same. I'm in Kansas and small towns out here are being DECIMATED. There are little towns where there's basically no one but the old people and empty nesters and the economies are almost solely based on social security checks.
I suppose you expect us to believe you could walk on water and dodge bullets too, Mr. Ward.
You must crunch numbers for Bill O'Reilly's anti-government rants. Firstly, there are a ton of government agencies generating relevant stats. It's going to take a large number of people to coordinate and validate figures for these agencies. Maybe you've never worked in the real world, but not every software project can be built by one person and run on the Linux box you have in your closet.
Who said testing ends when you get a production-quality design?
There's the caginess of veterans who know the best sniping spots and combinations of casts that'll set up an opponent for the fatality. There's also the developed muscle-memory that helps you cycle through weapons in a close-in fight while dodging bullets. Caginess is far more important to the mechanics of WoW, while reflexes are more important in Battlefield. But, you can't treat either as mutually exclusive. I could be a complete noob sitting in the best sniping spot in the game, but not have the coordination to get the kill shot from range. Or, I could have the fastest mouse in the west yet always go for the knife kill when a cagey vet knows that the pistol is the right call.
I guess the point is that just as in society, there are rules and there is etiquette. I'm a big Battlefield 2142 player and it drives me nuts when people do dickwad things that are perfectly legal within the confines of gameplay like RDX whoring, ditching choppers with passengers, or camping. The interesting thing to me has how these standards aren't uniform across all servers. Some call bitching about play that violates the spirit of the game as "whining." Others publish their own lists of custom rules on penalty of being kicked or banned. In the real world, my ex-girlfriend thought Bill Gates was a god because of his ruthless political acumen. Wall Street traders gloat about how they profit on loopholes in laws to their own profit (naked shorts anyone?). So, there will always be a gray area of frowned-upon behavior that will never be banned because a critical mass of "NO" votes will never be reached that would make breaches of etiquette unlawful.