(pedantic)That's true only in the way that saying a wolf is a kind of dog is true. If you really want to be correct, ferrets, skunks, otters, and the various species of weasels are all mustelids.(/pedantic)
So... anybody who wants to go to school but can't afford it gets a scholarship, right? So it's just like our public school system today, but privatized, and there's not mandatory attendance laws for any age?
Because if it's not, you've just thrown "fair" out the window - without education, there is no equality of opportunity.
Whether it is or not, that's just going to lead to an even worse case of the same problem we have today- unemployed, unemployable kids who won't even be able to work at McDonald's. But since they won't even have to pretend to go to school, juvenile deliquancy will start even earlier.
But the only reason you need Caius is to work your way up to Vivec. You never have to even see him - level up for a while, kill Vivec, take the papers, and then find the Last Dwarf and get Wraithguard working. (The only thing I haven't figured a way around is killing Vivec & the last dwarf before wraithguard is functional.)
This is to inform you that you are facing a summary lawsuit for use of a "not-entirely-pointy not-very-sharp bladed object" to dispense your "mayo". Although we don't have any evidence that you actually used one of my patent-pending devices, my lawyers and I are making the assumption based on the fact that only a terrorist would use a spoon to dispence mayo. And you're not a terrorist, are you?;)
The real reason I loved Morrowind : You can kill literally any single (or almost any random group of about fifty) person (people) and still finish the game just fine. What other game can say that?
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If half of you went back a week and the other half week back six days? Well, I guess it wouldn't suck for you, since you'd be dead pretty much instantly, but imagine how much your buddy would be hating life... He just finishes cleaning up the mess from the first time you exploded all over the machine, and then your other half appears and messes it all back up.
That's almost enough for me to put together some kind of prize for comments that are that incredibly... I don't even know the word for it. None of the adjectives I can think of right now are strong enough.
Whatever happened to the days of 1d4 magic missiles?
You're comparing (or confusing) apples and oranges. Dungeons & Dragons is to Everquest/DAoC/FFXI as a backyard game of football is to Madden 2005. (Or Madden 2007, or whatever iteration will give you the ability to play a full season online)
Yeah, the basic idea, and even (sometimes) the specific rules are the same... but they're completely different monsters. A pen & paper RPG is about having fun with your friends, and playing a role (hence the freakin' R). When's the last time you ran into somebody in a game online who did that (beyond the superficial use of archaic English)? A player who didn't do a very good job of role-playing was usually penalized - a character who lived only to fight would eventually meet something that was their definite superior, and they ended. Eventually the player learned, or quit. (This is in my experience with a few decent GM's. Your mileage may vary.)
A CRPG, on the other hand... well, before the days of MMORPG's, they were all single-player, and they were more like adventure games with customizable characters. In other words, they were about winning. But that was okay - the only characters who might get their feelings hurt were run by your 8086, 386, PS2, Xbox, or whatever. You're encouraged to 'power-game' on a CRPG - indeed, in a lot of cases, it's the only way to win without putting a huge amount of effort in.
But all that gets screwed up when you combine lots of players with computers. In a paper RPG, if none of the players have a lot of time to devote, the GM will probably advance things pretty quickly - large XP awards, big piles of treasure, whatever. (My campaigns in college come to mind.) On the other hand, when time is all you have (my high school years), you can advance slowly, and take your time at each level, and enjoy yourself a bit more.
But how does that work on a MMORPG? Do you reward people just on time they spend playing, or perhaps the amount of time they subscribe? Do you try to quantify skill in some way, or emphasis problem-solving or reward good role-playing?
The former two you can do with just computers - but the latter three require some degrees of human interaction. And that means paying people to be GM's... and that means the subscription fees would be much, much higher...
I really don't see a good solution for MMORPG's. (If I did, I'd probably be trying to get funding together.;) ) Then again, that's why I haven't played any of them for more than a one-month trial...
Asbestos is known to be a Co-Carcinogen. That is, by itself asbestos doesn't do anything.
Wow, I'd love to see some sources for that. As would a lot of other people... like my uncle who spent twenty years in construction, my supervisor who spent way too many years in a US Navy office building tiled with the stuff, and my cousin, who worked for his dad. Guess how many of them smoke? And guess how many have had some "pre-cancerous tumours"?
It's like taking stuff from a skip - technically that's theft, but who's going to believe it's wrong to steal junk that someone just threw away? Who's going to stick up for the other guy and say "he wanted that junk to go to the landfill, what right do you think you have to turn it into something useful instead?"
There's some places (my old home state of NC, IIRC) where that's perfectly legal - providing you don't have to trespass to get to the dumpster. (In other words, if it's placed on the edge of the property, and gets picked up by the city, it's okay - if it's placed behind the building, and a commercial firm picks it up, it's not. Why the difference? Near as I can figure, the city figures it would save money if enough people do some dumpster-diving.)
The short form limits your claim to $50 max, or whatever percentage if there is more than about 90,000 people filling it out. The long form, however, will allow you to get more... again, assuming that a small enough number of people sign up.
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Didja ever notice how long-distance transfer rate is a few years behind short-distance transfer rate... and it is pretty consistent?
(In other words... true, 10Gb per second isn't available from New York to Hong Kong today... but in 2014, that'll be standard... if not so-three-years-ago.)
So in theory, a short time (relative to the age of the universe) after a civilisation dies off there could be little or no evidence left that they ever existed!
That kinda depends... if they got to the space-faring level, we'd probably find all kinds of stuff (again, once we got there) - Barring a well-placed meteorite impact, I'm pretty sure most of lower unit of the lunar module would still be there for a long, long time.
1984 would've never worked because there weren't enough people to watch everyone else and keep a healthy economy going. Now with computers, that kind of watchfullness can be made a reality.
Did you ever read the book? The point wasn't that everyone was being watched all the time - it was made over and over again that they could be watching out of any of those screens at any time. Sure, you could put up a big "Big Brother Blows Goats!" sign in your living room, and you'd probably be okay for quite a while - but do you want to take the one in a few thousand chance that anything you do could be observed?
For the record, as long as they're only keeping copies of these tapes when they see a crime in progress, I'm perfectly okay with it. I'll only have a problem with it when/if the tapes start getting looked over to see what city employee is going into what sleezy porn theatre. (Not that I'm a city employee, mind you.):)
250 mile range is about as good as a WWII flattop with its airplanes, right?
But cheaper, faster, and doesn't put nearly as many valuable (read: really, really expensive to train) pilots in harm's way. And with the Predator UAV (or the naval version, I don't remember the name), you don't need any pilots at all.
Kind of bugs me that the memory cards AREN'T compatible.
Not strictly true, PS1 cards will work in the PS2, but only for PS1 games.
Umm... Yeah. That would mean the memory cards aren't compatible with the old games. (Which always bugged me - why couldn't the PS2 report the PS2 memory card as a PS1 card of whatever the max size was, and just let a PS1 game 'see' only the PS1 portion of the card?)
Imperfect, but better-than-nothing, enforcement could occur with a law allowing individual, ISP, or (state)attorneys-general to sue and collect $500/spam damages against spammers and the companies that authorize them.
So all I have to do... start sending spam from a well-hidden server in Korea. They can't go after me... but they can fine Microsoft(or Sun, Dell, Best Buy, or whoever else you'd like to screw today.) Yeah, that'd be a great freakin' idea.
Of course not. If you are required to run applications that only work on Windows you are obviously better off using Windows as your OS.
Or if you like using them more - GPL products are great and all, but sometimes the functionality available just isn't there. Show me a real graphics design school that uses a GPL product, please.
And as far as the console games go... I have a PS2 and an XBox... but as the grandparent said, there's games (really, certain classes of games) that aren't available. And if I want to play those games... well, I can play older versions and try to use WINE, or I can have a windows machine.
Really, I understand all your points - and if there was a better solution available, I'd use it. But there's really not - not unless I want to have three computers in the house... A windows machine for playing games, a linux box for email/surfing, and a Mac for the wife's graphic design stuff... but that's just going too far.
You seem to assume that people keep using Windows just because they don't have enough knowledge about Linux (or BSD, or so on...). Personally, I use my home computer for playing games, checking the news, and going on eBay. The latter two can be accomplished just as easily on a Windows system as a Linux one... and there are so, so many more gaming options with Windows. I don't like it more, but it suits my purposes far, far better.
But it's not necessarily symmetric. In fact, it's definitely not - you receive 23 chromosomes from each parent, that's true. But there's no sure way to know what percentage of that 23 comes from each of their parents (with the exception of X or Y chromosomes) without doing an in-depth genetic analysis.
Really, it's technically possible (although extremely unlikely) that I have no chromosomes from my father's mother. Although, since I'm male, I must have at least one from my father's father...
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(pedantic)That's true only in the way that saying a wolf is a kind of dog is true. If you really want to be correct, ferrets, skunks, otters, and the various species of weasels are all mustelids.(/pedantic)
Because if it's not, you've just thrown "fair" out the window - without education, there is no equality of opportunity.
Whether it is or not, that's just going to lead to an even worse case of the same problem we have today- unemployed, unemployable kids who won't even be able to work at McDonald's. But since they won't even have to pretend to go to school, juvenile deliquancy will start even earlier.
But the only reason you need Caius is to work your way up to Vivec. You never have to even see him - level up for a while, kill Vivec, take the papers, and then find the Last Dwarf and get Wraithguard working. (The only thing I haven't figured a way around is killing Vivec & the last dwarf before wraithguard is functional.)
This is to inform you that you are facing a summary lawsuit for use of a "not-entirely-pointy not-very-sharp bladed object" to dispense your "mayo". Although we don't have any evidence that you actually used one of my patent-pending devices, my lawyers and I are making the assumption based on the fact that only a terrorist would use a spoon to dispence mayo. And you're not a terrorist, are you? ;)
The real reason I loved Morrowind : You can kill literally any single (or almost any random group of about fifty) person (people) and still finish the game just fine. What other game can say that?
If half of you went back a week and the other half week back six days? Well, I guess it wouldn't suck for you, since you'd be dead pretty much instantly, but imagine how much your buddy would be hating life... He just finishes cleaning up the mess from the first time you exploded all over the machine, and then your other half appears and messes it all back up.
That's almost enough for me to put together some kind of prize for comments that are that incredibly... I don't even know the word for it. None of the adjectives I can think of right now are strong enough.
You're comparing (or confusing) apples and oranges. Dungeons & Dragons is to Everquest/DAoC/FFXI as a backyard game of football is to Madden 2005. (Or Madden 2007, or whatever iteration will give you the ability to play a full season online)
Yeah, the basic idea, and even (sometimes) the specific rules are the same... but they're completely different monsters. A pen & paper RPG is about having fun with your friends, and playing a role (hence the freakin' R). When's the last time you ran into somebody in a game online who did that (beyond the superficial use of archaic English)? A player who didn't do a very good job of role-playing was usually penalized - a character who lived only to fight would eventually meet something that was their definite superior, and they ended. Eventually the player learned, or quit. (This is in my experience with a few decent GM's. Your mileage may vary.)
A CRPG, on the other hand... well, before the days of MMORPG's, they were all single-player, and they were more like adventure games with customizable characters. In other words, they were about winning. But that was okay - the only characters who might get their feelings hurt were run by your 8086, 386, PS2, Xbox, or whatever. You're encouraged to 'power-game' on a CRPG - indeed, in a lot of cases, it's the only way to win without putting a huge amount of effort in.
But all that gets screwed up when you combine lots of players with computers. In a paper RPG, if none of the players have a lot of time to devote, the GM will probably advance things pretty quickly - large XP awards, big piles of treasure, whatever. (My campaigns in college come to mind.) On the other hand, when time is all you have (my high school years), you can advance slowly, and take your time at each level, and enjoy yourself a bit more.
But how does that work on a MMORPG? Do you reward people just on time they spend playing, or perhaps the amount of time they subscribe? Do you try to quantify skill in some way, or emphasis problem-solving or reward good role-playing?
The former two you can do with just computers - but the latter three require some degrees of human interaction. And that means paying people to be GM's... and that means the subscription fees would be much, much higher...
I really don't see a good solution for MMORPG's. (If I did, I'd probably be trying to get funding together. ;) ) Then again, that's why I haven't played any of them for more than a one-month trial...
Wow, I'd love to see some sources for that. As would a lot of other people... like my uncle who spent twenty years in construction, my supervisor who spent way too many years in a US Navy office building tiled with the stuff, and my cousin, who worked for his dad. Guess how many of them smoke? And guess how many have had some "pre-cancerous tumours"?
Define "fiercest". In terms of nastiest per pound, I'm pretty sure a wolverine would have them beat, hands down. ;)
What's so wrong with Morrowind? I mean, I'm only about 350 hours into the game, so I'm not that far through it, but.... ;)
There's some places (my old home state of NC, IIRC) where that's perfectly legal - providing you don't have to trespass to get to the dumpster. (In other words, if it's placed on the edge of the property, and gets picked up by the city, it's okay - if it's placed behind the building, and a commercial firm picks it up, it's not. Why the difference? Near as I can figure, the city figures it would save money if enough people do some dumpster-diving.)
The short form limits your claim to $50 max, or whatever percentage if there is more than about 90,000 people filling it out. The long form, however, will allow you to get more... again, assuming that a small enough number of people sign up.
(In other words... true, 10Gb per second isn't available from New York to Hong Kong today... but in 2014, that'll be standard... if not so-three-years-ago.)
That kinda depends... if they got to the space-faring level, we'd probably find all kinds of stuff (again, once we got there) - Barring a well-placed meteorite impact, I'm pretty sure most of lower unit of the lunar module would still be there for a long, long time.
Did you ever read the book? The point wasn't that everyone was being watched all the time - it was made over and over again that they could be watching out of any of those screens at any time. Sure, you could put up a big "Big Brother Blows Goats!" sign in your living room, and you'd probably be okay for quite a while - but do you want to take the one in a few thousand chance that anything you do could be observed?
For the record, as long as they're only keeping copies of these tapes when they see a crime in progress, I'm perfectly okay with it. I'll only have a problem with it when/if the tapes start getting looked over to see what city employee is going into what sleezy porn theatre. (Not that I'm a city employee, mind you.) :)
But cheaper, faster, and doesn't put nearly as many valuable (read: really, really expensive to train) pilots in harm's way. And with the Predator UAV (or the naval version, I don't remember the name), you don't need any pilots at all.
I have no problem sounding like a lemming, unlike some others above... me too, please!
Not strictly true, PS1 cards will work in the PS2, but only for PS1 games.
Umm... Yeah. That would mean the memory cards aren't compatible with the old games. (Which always bugged me - why couldn't the PS2 report the PS2 memory card as a PS1 card of whatever the max size was, and just let a PS1 game 'see' only the PS1 portion of the card?)
So all I have to do... start sending spam from a well-hidden server in Korea. They can't go after me... but they can fine Microsoft(or Sun, Dell, Best Buy, or whoever else you'd like to screw today.) Yeah, that'd be a great freakin' idea.
the RIAA drops the prices on CD's to compete directly with cassette tapes.
Or if you like using them more - GPL products are great and all, but sometimes the functionality available just isn't there. Show me a real graphics design school that uses a GPL product, please.
And as far as the console games go... I have a PS2 and an XBox... but as the grandparent said, there's games (really, certain classes of games) that aren't available. And if I want to play those games... well, I can play older versions and try to use WINE, or I can have a windows machine.
Really, I understand all your points - and if there was a better solution available, I'd use it. But there's really not - not unless I want to have three computers in the house... A windows machine for playing games, a linux box for email/surfing, and a Mac for the wife's graphic design stuff... but that's just going too far.
Slashdot makes me sad sometimes. ;)
You seem to assume that people keep using Windows just because they don't have enough knowledge about Linux (or BSD, or so on...). Personally, I use my home computer for playing games, checking the news, and going on eBay. The latter two can be accomplished just as easily on a Windows system as a Linux one... and there are so, so many more gaming options with Windows. I don't like it more, but it suits my purposes far, far better.
Really, it's technically possible (although extremely unlikely) that I have no chromosomes from my father's mother. Although, since I'm male, I must have at least one from my father's father...