-Non-online radio stations charge money for sports broadcasts?
I thought not.
The net would be a much happer place if people would stop trying to commercialize the hell out of it. Charge for things that you would have to pay for in a non digital form, but this is just being greedy. I guess if there's no ads its okay - but who's really going to go through the hassle of shelling out the extra money just to avoid listening to a few people with irritating voices advertising lame products? Hell, I think the ads are funny.
I guess I sort of jumped around what I was trying to say... No one plays their character's role. No one at all. Paladins and necromancers team up without a thought, etc, etc... The character itself has no meaning - its just quake with swords and magic.
I don't really care, but advertising them as role playing games is a bit incorrect because then you get people buying it expecting it to be full of people playing their roles in the world, with clerics actually caring about what gods they worship and/or anger, or high elves looking down on the other races as inferior. Verant (the people that made EverQuest) actually started calling their game a MMOG (massively multiplayer online game) rather than a MMORPG to avoid this confusion. They realize that the amount of roleplaying going on in their game is practically nil.
Anyway, I'm just talking about my experience with EverQuest. It was fun for the first few days and then it was all about "Level 16 wizard looking for group!"... From what I hear UO has a bit more potential for role playing. I just wanted to speak up because I'm bitter about buying EQ and getting bored with it so quickly. It's a mark of how addictive it is though that I continued playing it for months. =) Maybe I should give UO a try...
It's actually MMOG's, not MMRPG or MMORPG's as they used to be called. You really only need to play one for a few minutes before you realize that there's absolutely no role playing at all in these games unless you really look for it.
I think online games like UO and EverQuest are a neat idea, but they really don't work out. Grief players really ruin the experience (no pun intended) in a world where level and equipment advancement, rather than mindless shoot 'em up, is the goal.
There's fun to be had in these games, but if you're looking for a role playing game, you're still better off with a piece of paper, a pen, and some dice. =)
I wasn't exactly trying to be funny - At the time I wrote it no one else had said anything I thought it was kind of fitting and I thought my last line made it clear I don't think the whole thing is some big joke. But thanks a lot for flaming me friend, I really appreciated it.
Heh... Well, will you look at that... The article does say that. Well, yay for you guys... So your government can tell you to embed laptops in your classes... Shouldn't that be a decision left to the individual universities?
And most of the content of the comments has been on how revolutionary this all is... Which it really isn't.
And to the best of my knowledge Acadia is one of the first if not the first well recognized university (not just college) to FULLY integrate laptops into the classroom and completely rewire the campus to reflect this.
Moreover, no one ever claimed our administrators were that bright... As I say, we use Novell.:) So, the fact that we aren't using Mathematica isn't really that important. We're an undergraduate only school anyway for the most part... Perhaps Maple and Matlab are sufficient for our Math Majors... (I wouldn't know being in Comp Sci...)
--Flame On--
And now that I've fully read your post maybe YOU should wake up. Insiginificant and unknown?? PRIVATE? Next time read a book or something before you post - Acadia is not private at all. That's why people who don't have their daddy's give them corvette's are able to attend. Not only that, but Acadia is consistently rated highly by Maclean's magazine and is easily one of the best universities in Candada. And get this, since in Canada we don't give out ridiculous sports scholarships, most of the people who graduate from Acadia actually have brains in their heads! Woot!
--Flame Off--
But yeah, you're right... We don't have our government telling us we have to use laptops. That would be just plain wacky.
"...but what they have is awesome - each table has network connections and power, the podium at the front has a built in vcr, port replicator, document camera, etc, all connected to a data projector. We're talking capable of full multimedia presentations / lessons / etc, with web-based courses so you need not even show up for class (I used shoutcast once to stream a lesson for some ppl who didn't come one day)."
You've just described EVERY classroom at Acadia University, which has been innovating (heh.) laptops into student's lives for the last 4 years.
Southern Ontario, huh? Hehehe... These newfangled laptops in schools are only news to American's.:)
Unfortunately the staff here at Acadia University have elected to base our network off Novell Netware and moreover they refuse to upgrade our network's infrastrucure/pipe to the outside world to deal with the load of having many thousands of laptops connected to the internet at once.
Anyway, you silly Americans think you're so revolutionary doing this - But Acadia's been doing it for the last 4 years... EH indeed.
And we pronounce it About, not aboot. It's not our fault that you think it should be abawt.:P
Back in the day, when I was running Windows 3.1 on a 386SX with 2 megs of RAM, the bouncing card animation took several minutes always. I thought that was the way it was supposed to look.
Perhaps a new benchmark is in order?
The speed at which the bouncing card animation takes place when you win Solitaire??
Just wondering, but if we declare email we write to be copyrighted material and then encrypt it can we sue the government/big companies for breaking the encryption and circumventing our access control under the DMCA?
Seeing as how I'm not a lawyer (nor do I play one on TV), I'm curious as to how information that Oracle (Microsoft's competition) offers will be treated in court.
"...Left undisclosed, these Microsoft front groups could have influenced the outcome of one of the most important antitrust cases in U.S. history."
I assume therefore that this information was or will be used in court. Shouldn't the DOJ be the ones searching through Microsoft's garbage? Is it really the competition's place to be investigating Microsoft?
I don't know anything about law or corporate politics, but I wouldn't be very happy if Microsoft started investigating Redhat or something hoping to turn up some dirt. This should be the responsibility of the government in my humble opinion. =)
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-Non-online radio stations charge money for sports broadcasts?
I thought not.
The net would be a much happer place if people would stop trying to commercialize the hell out of it. Charge for things that you would have to pay for in a non digital form, but this is just being greedy. I guess if there's no ads its okay - but who's really going to go through the hassle of shelling out the extra money just to avoid listening to a few people with irritating voices advertising lame products? Hell, I think the ads are funny.
I guess I sort of jumped around what I was trying to say... No one plays their character's role. No one at all. Paladins and necromancers team up without a thought, etc, etc... The character itself has no meaning - its just quake with swords and magic.
... From what I hear UO has a bit more potential for role playing. I just wanted to speak up because I'm bitter about buying EQ and getting bored with it so quickly. It's a mark of how addictive it is though that I continued playing it for months. =) Maybe I should give UO a try...
I don't really care, but advertising them as role playing games is a bit incorrect because then you get people buying it expecting it to be full of people playing their roles in the world, with clerics actually caring about what gods they worship and/or anger, or high elves looking down on the other races as inferior. Verant (the people that made EverQuest) actually started calling their game a MMOG (massively multiplayer online game) rather than a MMORPG to avoid this confusion. They realize that the amount of roleplaying going on in their game is practically nil.
Anyway, I'm just talking about my experience with EverQuest. It was fun for the first few days and then it was all about "Level 16 wizard looking for group!"
It's actually MMOG's, not MMRPG or MMORPG's as they used to be called. You really only need to play one for a few minutes before you realize that there's absolutely no role playing at all in these games unless you really look for it.
I think online games like UO and EverQuest are a neat idea, but they really don't work out. Grief players really ruin the experience (no pun intended) in a world where level and equipment advancement, rather than mindless shoot 'em up, is the goal.
There's fun to be had in these games, but if you're looking for a role playing game, you're still better off with a piece of paper, a pen, and some dice. =)
What does it take in Australia to declare yourself a corporation? :)
I wasn't exactly trying to be funny - At the time I wrote it no one else had said anything I thought it was kind of fitting and I thought my last line made it clear I don't think the whole thing is some big joke. But thanks a lot for flaming me friend, I really appreciated it.
It would be great to have an extension cord dangling out of your back - Just think Neon Genesis Evangelion! :)
Ping timed out...
100% packet loss.
Let his name live on as long as his program.
And I spelled Canada Candada... That's beautiful. :)
Heh... Well, will you look at that... The article does say that. Well, yay for you guys... So your government can tell you to embed laptops in your classes... Shouldn't that be a decision left to the individual universities?
:) So, the fact that we aren't using Mathematica isn't really that important. We're an undergraduate only school anyway for the most part... Perhaps Maple and Matlab are sufficient for our Math Majors... (I wouldn't know being in Comp Sci...)
And most of the content of the comments has been on how revolutionary this all is... Which it really isn't.
And to the best of my knowledge Acadia is one of the first if not the first well recognized university (not just college) to FULLY integrate laptops into the classroom and completely rewire the campus to reflect this.
Moreover, no one ever claimed our administrators were that bright... As I say, we use Novell.
--Flame On--
And now that I've fully read your post maybe YOU should wake up. Insiginificant and unknown?? PRIVATE? Next time read a book or something before you post - Acadia is not private at all. That's why people who don't have their daddy's give them corvette's are able to attend. Not only that, but Acadia is consistently rated highly by Maclean's magazine and is easily one of the best universities in Candada. And get this, since in Canada we don't give out ridiculous sports scholarships, most of the people who graduate from Acadia actually have brains in their heads! Woot!
--Flame Off--
But yeah, you're right... We don't have our government telling us we have to use laptops. That would be just plain wacky.
Whoops! Shouldn't have left that ' in Americans... Oh well!
"...but what they have is awesome - each table has network connections and power, the podium at the front has a built in vcr, port replicator, document camera, etc, all connected to a data projector. We're talking capable of full multimedia presentations / lessons / etc, with web-based courses so you need not even show up for class (I used shoutcast once to stream a lesson for some ppl who didn't come one day)."
:)
You've just described EVERY classroom at Acadia University, which has been innovating (heh.) laptops into student's lives for the last 4 years.
Southern Ontario, huh? Hehehe... These newfangled laptops in schools are only news to American's.
Unfortunately the staff here at Acadia University have elected to base our network off Novell Netware and moreover they refuse to upgrade our network's infrastrucure/pipe to the outside world to deal with the load of having many thousands of laptops connected to the internet at once.
:P
Anyway, you silly Americans think you're so revolutionary doing this - But Acadia's been doing it for the last 4 years... EH indeed.
And we pronounce it About, not aboot. It's not our fault that you think it should be abawt.
The Acadia Advantage
I bet Bruce Willis and Liv Tyler are suiting up.
What the hell do a half elven princess and a dead guy have to do with anything???
Can we ban Al Gore for creating the internet in the first place? :-)
Or a zillion generations of free reading at the library killed the book publishers.
Back in the day, when I was running Windows 3.1 on a 386SX with 2 megs of RAM, the bouncing card animation took several minutes always. I thought that was the way it was supposed to look.
Perhaps a new benchmark is in order?
The speed at which the bouncing card animation takes place when you win Solitaire??
Just wondering, but if we declare email we write to be copyrighted material and then encrypt it can we sue the government/big companies for breaking the encryption and circumventing our access control under the DMCA?
It's Log! Log!
It's big its heavy its wood!
It's Log! Log!
It's better than bad, it's good!
God: 640Khz should be enough for anyone.
Super Pro Turbo Pentium Hyper Alpha Tournament Winner's Platinum Edition The Movie.
=)
Ironically enough, the auction for this real-life weapon is to occur on Everquest.
Mmmnnn... Wood elves.
Seeing as how I'm not a lawyer (nor do I play one on TV), I'm curious as to how information that Oracle (Microsoft's competition) offers will be treated in court.
"...Left undisclosed, these Microsoft front groups could have influenced the outcome of one of the most important antitrust cases in U.S. history."
I assume therefore that this information was or will be used in court. Shouldn't the DOJ be the ones searching through Microsoft's garbage? Is it really the competition's place to be investigating Microsoft?
I don't know anything about law or corporate politics, but I wouldn't be very happy if Microsoft started investigating Redhat or something hoping to turn up some dirt. This should be the responsibility of the government in my humble opinion. =)
Your proposal is acceptable. --Anti File-Sharing Threatening Dude #1
I will patent stupidity!! Then they must either stop making stupid laws/patents/etc... or they must pay me royalties!
No doubt I will be rich.