Prove I seen it. Considering I am regulatory bound NOT TO FIND it, my simple defense is I never seen it. I was following federal regulations and only sticking to the OS files.
Yep...and the law of the land says a lot of shit. States I shouldn't speed and shouldn't talk about about the president (UCMJ is an issue where I work).
Federal regulation (might as well be law) where I work PROHIBITS me from invading a users personnal privacy on their work computers.
For me to even just find kiddie porns is ground is exceeding my legal authority and grounds for immediate termination and immediate investigation by CID.
Kind of tough to explain how you just *found* kiddie porn in a personnal folder when federal regulation stops from looking.
How do I not report it, easily, I just never see it. If I do see it, I treat the 'law of the land' like I treat speeding laws, I ignore that also.
It doesn't bother me in the slightest, its not my job to care about the worlds problems. This is NOT about child pornography anways, so don't even try to bring that up. This is about purposeful abusing your elavated permissions as a tech to violate your users privacy.
We have policies here that expressively prohibit our techs from viewing personnal files on the computer they work on. In windows, this basically means they are NOT authorized for ANY reason to look in the documents and setting folders or the profiles. Nor our they allowed to view network shares containing personnal files. Unless you have a warrant (or a 15-6), we will (and have) fire any tech that violates this regardless of wrong doing.
You only need access to operation system files as a tech. If you need to backup data, you don't need to view that information. Have a problem with the system, backup, format, install. Problems solved.
These two did not get fired for blowing the whistle, they got fired for violating the privacy fo the professor. Think how many other personnal files (to non-guilty professors) those two have accessed, read. They are not law officials, they do not have this right.
I work government network security for a living. Part of the ethics instilled in us (along with federal regulations governing the position) is the broad understanding that we are here to protect the security of the network. We are not the porn police or any other type of legal official.
We are legally bound NOT TO report anything even if discovered on a routine call, not our job. We are not legally authorized to invade your privacy. That is why they have policy with warrants. It is also a position I stand behind and advidly enforce on my more moral or do gooder juniors. Your users should trust you to do your job and FIX the computer / issue, not narc them out. Your job is NOT to enforce your morality or ideas of what the law is upon them.
If you want to be a narc join a legal body and put your computer skills to use helping them. If just want to narc on your coworker because they don't fit in your ideas of morality, I have no sympathy for you or anybody like you. Losing your job should be the least of your worries, you should be hung from a tree.
Everybody breaks the law including you. Do you really want to live in a society where the guy behind you on the freeway calls the police on you for doing 57 in a 55.
Mind your own business and do you job unless your job is to bust folk.
What I would like to see is a list of movie records adjusted for inflation. Every time I see a *new opening record* or *highest grossing movie of all time* I immediately think bullshit, just marketting leading the sheeple on.
I would like to see numbers adjusted not only for inflation, but also amount of tickets sold, screens shown at, etc etc. For example, I figure a movie that opens only in the midwest selling out every available ticket would rate higher than a nation wide opening selling 50% of tickets.
Just because a record is broken doesn't make it popular movie. If I could manage to show a movie in EVERY theatre worldwide and sell only 5% of the seats at each showing, I also could smash records. Theatres would be empty, but due to shear numbers I would win.
On the exact opposite of the coin, fucking developers keep de-emphazing single player mode for multi-player and online modes that I could care less about. I don't do online games. I don't do multiplayer. PERIOD. Sure I am the minority of the market, but a rather big one (would say ~30% judging on the gamers I have known over the years). Before you object, think of all the games you play single player and enjoy... would you prefer Metal Gear Solid 2 or GTA multiplayer online..hell no. You want the story and play of single player.
More and more developers are making shoddy stories and short campaigns for single player mode expecting you to want to go online or play against of people even though plenty of us don't want this.
The problem with games and a reason they are failing is that they are ignoring large minorities that will actually purchase the game. There is still a market for turn based and single player games. Sure these markets won't take you to top 10 selling list, but you will still turn a profit.
Not to flame but over the last year I have migrating all my php applications to mod_perl... Will admit I started out on PHP and it was quick as hell to use but as I progressed I kept finding more and more shortcoming that Perl addressed. Also, the speed advantage died with mod_perl. Check out yahoo own charts where the perl test consitantly(?sp) beat out the PHP solution (though not by much).
I find Perl to be the same of your fifth statement about PHP. Perl is faster, more secure, more feature rich, and less code to complish the same thing than in PHP. And I started the first 3 years of my coding life ONLY using PHP.
They both have their places and not dismissing PHP, it is great for a quick lightweight solution. But for enterprise sites, will go the perl route. Then again, I rather hate OOP:) and perl is one of my last hopes to avoid it.
Oh T E R R O R I S M.... you mean like nuking a Japanese cities when little military value or the firebombing of dresden. Before you say something like these was a legit military targets in a war, lets look at this from Al-Queda perspective (using military logic applied to our nuking).
1. We are at war with another power. Check
2. Killing 90% innocent civilians to kill some military people. Check..was a CIA office in the world trade center.
3. Causing terror among civilian populace to influence government. Check.
Don't confuse terrorism with legit fighting against a military opponent. Just because we don't like being the target and its irregular, it doesn't make it any different that what we have did in our own past.
I disagree. Sometimes you inherit it (not always laziness). Recently ( as in 6 months ago) took over a 3 year contract from another company and they left wiring situations from hell. (a good example is the 100 pair multimode fiber buried about 5 feet down in the mud and ran for mile to our satellite shot with about 30 splices in it). Our wiring closets are even worse. Contract specifies operating and maintenance ONLY, not installation or engineering. You can be damned if you think I am cleaning up 3 years worth of installation hell from another contracting firm. Not in the contract and unless it goes down, not covered under maintenance. Nor am I going to subject my techs to months of misery fixing somebody elses mess especially when our contract will also be up in 3 years with no chance of renewal.
Just because somebody has wiring from hell and jury rigged systems doesn't always mean they are lazy SOB's... sometimes you just don't feel the need to fix other peoples problems. If your company didn't care before, they sure as hell don't care now, and if they do, they can write it in the contract.
Thats one CAMPAIGN. Are little gaming group decided that the same old scenario's were getting old and FE was no fun. So we designed a spherical universe map, gave each person a planet in it, and the started a great war. About 200 sectors, each populated randomly and about 8 players. Haven't yet had a clear winner. Have to remember that a single large fleet battle (using max command points) gives you ~ 12 ships -v- 12 ships. At 12 hour game days, takes 2 weeks->1 month to finish a battle. One day my mighty Andro empire will win this:) (actually have my doubts from my position, but can hope)
Nope. I bash mozilla and open source when applicable all the time. But try reading the ECMAscript STANDARDS. You will see this is a clear cut case of once again m$ failing to implement them properly (can you say document.all as a prime example).
And how does that compare to the single Star Fleet Battles campaign I have been in for 7 years now? Everythign is not just outside your grasp in everquest....you all start playing another game and bet your ass Sony will start making it in your grasp. The latest high level premade character packs you can buy from Sony are examples of this. The thing miniature games have going for them is once you buy them..they are yours, regardless of what the company wants or the economy demands. I have spent $20 and have enjoyed myself for years on that game (~8->12 hours a week).... how much have you blown on evercrack? Where will everquest be in 4 years when the popularity runs out?On to greater and better...where is all your valuable time spent, gone, useless. Sure there are dedicated players ever much as dedicated as real life hobbiest, but they can't support the game along. I dont' care if my games makers go out of biz or not, I can always play the game, now or 50 years from now. One of my favorite games to still play is Renegade Legion Leviathon... FASA discountined this ~1993 and FASA itself out of biz ~1999... yet I dont' seem to have any issues *immersing myself in it*. Your whole enjoyment is driven my mass market economics. Evercrack can't survive a loss of population the way real life games can OR even MUD's. When you product is driven my mass market, your quality suffers and so do your hard core games. And of course people will move on, better graphics, faster games, better engines... it doesn't end. You can stay still in the computer business. (Everquest is about to die itself...everquest 2 on the way...an upgrade == complete repurchase of everythign you already invested even if they have an import function. They will add somethign to make everquest 1 players go and buy everquest 2). My 700 page ruleset covers all I can and ever need to know to enjoy my games endlessly. Hard to upgrade minatures (well besides better paint jobs).
MMORPG ARE 5 min thrills w/ 10 minute worlds. Its the same reason chess (with a board) will be here 500 years from now and everquest will barely be remembered.
You have that wrong. I am bragging that my browser does the standards. The fact that IE doens't support standards and that codes works in IE is something to mock. I don't complain when my honda civic doesnt' blow up like good old pinto's either nor that my firestone tires don't try and kill me.
Luckily I use Mozilla and this m$ IE only javascript that supposely turns off the internet doesn't work. Score one more for open source:).. take that bill.
(pg 12)... My ass. I have never in 9 years of gaming seen people more immersed in a game that miniature strategic gaming. These are people that will play the SAME game through hundreds on meticulous through months. Remember times where it would take 9 hours to do 2 rounds. This is immersion in all its details. If anything, you are more immersed as you actually have to think as opposed to everything being handed to you on a plate. Thing with online games and MMORPG's is people don't have to think, its immersion for the masses. Its 5-minute thrill in 10-minute worlds where everything is provided to you.
Red Bulld / Vodka didnt' come about with marketting just to correct you. I first *discovered* Red Bull/Vodyka myself in a shitty ass old east german military bar outside Berlin. Some young german troops who were pretty involved in the club scene were drinking it. This was back in 1998, about 2 years before Red Bull even came to America and about 1 year before Red Bull started advertising everywhere in europe.
Sure America was introduced by Marketting droids, but it had a large above underground following back in 1998. If it was for the following, Red Bull never would have made in anywhere. Sure marketting pushed it along, but the huge popularity of it with european club goes gave Red Bull the money to buy that marketting.
"I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia. I wanted to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture... and kill them."
-Full Metal Jacket
s/Vie.*ia\./so called terrorist country here/g
The military can show you the world you are missing:), get to travel and live for extended periods of time, they even PAY YOU... be all you can be, a whore in every port, fly proud, etc etc
Look at that logo. Width / length of fingers. Anybody else think that looks like a single guys hand with 3 women hands. Just what m$ needs for a logo
"Geek? Single? lonely? Love microsoft but all the sexy unix chics won't talk to you. Well this is the place for you. Place all your.NET software here, where the microsoft women outnumber the men. Who knows, might even get you laid":)
About time. I used to be a lead web developer at a US public university and was delegated by my director to provide accessability for all regardless of physically handicaps. After a couple years of doing this, developing in this manner became second nature and even as a nonvisually disabled person, I became more and more annoyed by sites that just didn't care.
It amazing me at the lack of professionalism in the web developer community for not addressesing this issue w/o legal being required to. It takes all of 15 minutes to run your site through bobby and the learning curve for meeting the W3C WAI guidelines is low. To not take the little time out of your unimpaired life to make life easier for others amazes me. Especially when 70% of it is just following good web coding practices (eg non-visual cues, alt tags, not using/requiring javascript/flash, using aural spreadsheets, etc etc). People seem to think that you can't design a site not using these items or that their site will be ugly / not satisfy the client. Both are wrong. Often you can use nice visual ques AND provide a seperate or alternate site for visually impaired people. Or just layout your site so even without visual ques, it is still usable. They aren't asking for amazing aural sites, they are asking for FUNCTIONAL aural sites. As for extra cost and time you spend designing these feature, bet that time is a hell of a lot cheaper that the multimillion dollar lawsuit you can/might get slapped with.
Trying surfing the net with lynx for an entire day, see usable it is. After thinking how bad that is, try downloading / buying your favorite aural browser for a real eye opener. Its not pretty. Now try doing that your whole life.
Re:The RPG is dead! LONG LIVE MMORPG!
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Bah...
MMORPG will NEVER in the short-run (>10 years) come close to the complexity or enjoyment of PnP RPG's .
Reasoning:
In a PnP RPG, you don't have to pay monthly. Buy in once and you can enjoy it for years (you don't HAVE to buy all those expansions)
People care about their characters, you can actually do anything you want. I played in a couple PnP campaigns and you know what, when my characters died, they died. No resurection, no reloading, no paltry penality, etc etc. Plus you actually interact with real people. You don't do stupid stuff like screw your party because a) you see your friend in RL b) he will prob smack you in the face and ban you from the playing anymore. MMORPG don't have this because their primary concern is making more $$$ every month. You die, you get a paltry penality, you screw people, so what..they can't physically or socially harm you (turn computer off, go back to RL). In PnP RPG people (believe it or not) ACTUALLY RUN from encounters they might die in and use social engineering and charisma for encounters sometimes (not just fight, damn i died, guess I have to reload). And yes there were monsters do powerful regardless of your / group strenght..you just couldn't win.
Also for shits and giggle, you can't do ANYTHING you want in current MMORPG's (unlike PnP RPG)... for example (using DnD)... try using your wish spell and wishing something palty and pointless, like you character now has a pocket full of cotten candy, or the oak tree over there turns pink..... this isn't going to happen in a MMORPG. Just do many variables in RL PnP RPG that MMORPG can't compensate for... so instead of making a more complex game, they cut out stuff. The secret to an amazing PnP RPG is the DETAILS, something MMORPG just gloss over. In NWM... ever tried to dig a whole with your sword for no damn reason in the middle of a path... you can't.. why not?
I could ramble on for pages on this but those our my two biggies and why MMORPG will never replace PnP RGP (though might but them out of biz)... MMORPG can't match the complexities and people play stupidly because it doesn't matter in RL.
Remeber, PnP RPG takes a big investment of TIME and was a niche market, the niche drove the designers and they usually tried to make a good product.
MMORPG doesn't care about these because they are meant for the masses and monthly subscriptions... if they fail, move on and create another... computer companies don't get a rats ass about there customers. The niche is FPS -v RPG.
Bah. Clubbing is a waste of time if you are looking for good electronica musik. All you hear is the same anthems remixed and remixed (think pop top 40 of electronica).
If you really plan to go out and listen to some good musik, highly suggest finding a good cafe or bar. Since the idea behind these to establishments is usually to get you to relax and chill with friends (and get your $$$), the music is usually good background noise. Since music isn't the focus of these joints, they usually can afford to play some orginal and more non-mainstream music. Clubs on the other hand are way to into trying to draw a crowd and keep them moving and coming back (and get even more of your $$$). Needless to say, you almost never will hear anything new or down tempo.
Another good way is good old shoutcast (http://wwww.shoutcast.com). Get yourself on some european streams now that CARP has killed america, listen for anythinn you like, write down the titles you enjoy.
If you are looking for an excellent place to purchase electronica music from for relatively cheap (and don't mind shipping charges), highly suggest World of Music (http://www.wom.de/).
Used to shop there locally all the time and now that I live in the states, mail order with them (they ship international for reasonable rates). And before somebody pipes in you can get most releases in the US, let me shoot you down.
1. It is cheaper to pay international shipping than purchase "imports" from a US store.
2. US releases OFTEN cost more than the same european release WHILE ALSO normally sharting you out of a song or two (or even a bonus CD)
Disclaimer: Yes I know some clubs have orginal DJ, yes I have heard some AMAZING sets at clubs. But honestly, 99% are electronica top 40. This goes world wide.
Heh..like asking ppl if they prefer GM to Ford
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2 cents:
Orbital - Orbital Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Underworld - Beaucomp Fish Mono - Formica Blues
Any thing by Portishead, Massive Attack, Viennia Scientists, Tricky, LTJ Bukem.
wh00t... Did Rubi-Con also last year and planning to go again this year. Damn good (and even informative <grin>) convention. Reasonably priced also (read: cheap).
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Never said they are going away. I said you now have to do some completely odd funky syntax to do character classes as we know them.
<[a-z_]> <--sure its only the addition of <> (well not really, because it soon starts looking completely unlike RegEx... [^a-b] compared to <-[a-b]> BUT character classes have alway as long as I have know been []... some syntax seems essential and such, should be unchanging.+*()[] and later {}?... This modifiers seem to be the core basic syntax of all regex engines. What next, to much a single character we replace . with <!.!> (not real code), or how about * with <%many_not_zero%>... my point it [] is basic syntax, it doesnt' need changing.
Now here is my fun Perl6 question.
Before I could do [^[:alpha:][:num:].*].... Perl 6 is what?
<-alpha><-num><-[.*]> isn't correct since that is not ONE character class.
<<-alpha><-num><-[.*]>> maybe? (though it also doesnt' look right)... this seems to me to look like [^[:alpha:]^[:num:]^.*] which is completely wrong (and doens't work)
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Prove I seen it. Considering I am regulatory bound NOT TO FIND it, my simple defense is I never seen it. I was following federal regulations and only sticking to the OS files.
self-rightous cunt
Yep...and the law of the land says a lot of shit. States I shouldn't speed and shouldn't talk about about the president (UCMJ is an issue where I work).
Federal regulation (might as well be law) where I work PROHIBITS me from invading a users personnal privacy on their work computers.
For me to even just find kiddie porns is ground is exceeding my legal authority and grounds for immediate termination and immediate investigation by CID.
Kind of tough to explain how you just *found* kiddie porn in a personnal folder when federal regulation stops from looking.
How do I not report it, easily, I just never see it. If I do see it, I treat the 'law of the land' like I treat speeding laws, I ignore that also.
It doesn't bother me in the slightest, its not my job to care about the worlds problems. This is NOT about child pornography anways, so don't even try to bring that up. This is about purposeful abusing your elavated permissions as a tech to violate your users privacy.
We have policies here that expressively prohibit our techs from viewing personnal files on the computer they work on. In windows, this basically means they are NOT authorized for ANY reason to look in the documents and setting folders or the profiles. Nor our they allowed to view network shares containing personnal files. Unless you have a warrant (or a 15-6), we will (and have) fire any tech that violates this regardless of wrong doing.
You only need access to operation system files as a tech. If you need to backup data, you don't need to view that information. Have a problem with the system, backup, format, install. Problems solved.
These two did not get fired for blowing the whistle, they got fired for violating the privacy fo the professor. Think how many other personnal files (to non-guilty professors) those two have accessed, read. They are not law officials, they do not have this right.
I work government network security for a living. Part of the ethics instilled in us (along with federal regulations governing the position) is the broad understanding that we are here to protect the security of the network. We are not the porn police or any other type of legal official.
We are legally bound NOT TO report anything even if discovered on a routine call, not our job. We are not legally authorized to invade your privacy. That is why they have policy with warrants. It is also a position I stand behind and advidly enforce on my more moral or do gooder juniors. Your users should trust you to do your job and FIX the computer / issue, not narc them out. Your job is NOT to enforce your morality or ideas of what the law is upon them.
If you want to be a narc join a legal body and put your computer skills to use helping them. If just want to narc on your coworker because they don't fit in your ideas of morality, I have no sympathy for you or anybody like you. Losing your job should be the least of your worries, you should be hung from a tree.
Everybody breaks the law including you. Do you really want to live in a society where the guy behind you on the freeway calls the police on you for doing 57 in a 55.
Mind your own business and do you job unless your job is to bust folk.
What I would like to see is a list of movie records adjusted for inflation. Every time I see a *new opening record* or *highest grossing movie of all time* I immediately think bullshit, just marketting leading the sheeple on.
I would like to see numbers adjusted not only for inflation, but also amount of tickets sold, screens shown at, etc etc. For example, I figure a movie that opens only in the midwest selling out every available ticket would rate higher than a nation wide opening selling 50% of tickets.
Just because a record is broken doesn't make it popular movie. If I could manage to show a movie in EVERY theatre worldwide and sell only 5% of the seats at each showing, I also could smash records. Theatres would be empty, but due to shear numbers I would win.
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... would you prefer Metal Gear Solid 2 or GTA multiplayer online..hell no. You want the story and play of single player.
On the exact opposite of the coin, fucking developers keep de-emphazing single player mode for multi-player and online modes that I could care less about. I don't do online games. I don't do multiplayer. PERIOD. Sure I am the minority of the market, but a rather big one (would say ~30% judging on the gamers I have known over the years). Before you object, think of all the games you play single player and enjoy
More and more developers are making shoddy stories and short campaigns for single player mode expecting you to want to go online or play against of people even though plenty of us don't want this.
The problem with games and a reason they are failing is that they are ignoring large minorities that will actually purchase the game. There is still a market for turn based and single player games. Sure these markets won't take you to top 10 selling list, but you will still turn a profit.
Not to flame but over the last year I have migrating all my php applications to mod_perl ... Will admit I started out on PHP and it was quick as hell to use but as I progressed I kept finding more and more shortcoming that Perl addressed. Also, the speed advantage died with mod_perl. Check out yahoo own charts where the perl test consitantly(?sp) beat out the PHP solution (though not by much).
:) and perl is one of my last hopes to avoid it.
I find Perl to be the same of your fifth statement about PHP. Perl is faster, more secure, more feature rich, and less code to complish the same thing than in PHP. And I started the first 3 years of my coding life ONLY using PHP.
They both have their places and not dismissing PHP, it is great for a quick lightweight solution. But for enterprise sites, will go the perl route. Then again, I rather hate OOP
Oh T E R R O R I S M.... you mean like nuking a Japanese cities when little military value or the firebombing of dresden. Before you say something like these was a legit military targets in a war, lets look at this from Al-Queda perspective (using military logic applied to our nuking).
1. We are at war with another power. Check
2. Killing 90% innocent civilians to kill some military people. Check..was a CIA office in the world trade center.
3. Causing terror among civilian populace to influence government. Check.
Don't confuse terrorism with legit fighting against a military opponent. Just because we don't like being the target and its irregular, it doesn't make it any different that what we have did in our own past.
I disagree. Sometimes you inherit it (not always laziness). Recently ( as in 6 months ago) took over a 3 year contract from another company and they left wiring situations from hell. (a good example is the 100 pair multimode fiber buried about 5 feet down in the mud and ran for mile to our satellite shot with about 30 splices in it). Our wiring closets are even worse. Contract specifies operating and maintenance ONLY, not installation or engineering. You can be damned if you think I am cleaning up 3 years worth of installation hell from another contracting firm. Not in the contract and unless it goes down, not covered under maintenance. Nor am I going to subject my techs to months of misery fixing somebody elses mess especially when our contract will also be up in 3 years with no chance of renewal.
... sometimes you just don't feel the need to fix other peoples problems. If your company didn't care before, they sure as hell don't care now, and if they do, they can write it in the contract.
Just because somebody has wiring from hell and jury rigged systems doesn't always mean they are lazy SOB's
Thats one CAMPAIGN. Are little gaming group decided that the same old scenario's were getting old and FE was no fun. So we designed a spherical universe map, gave each person a planet in it, and the started a great war. About 200 sectors, each populated randomly and about 8 players. Haven't yet had a clear winner. Have to remember that a single large fleet battle (using max command points) gives you ~ 12 ships -v- 12 ships. At 12 hour game days, takes 2 weeks->1 month to finish a battle. One day my mighty Andro empire will win this :) (actually have my doubts from my position, but can hope)
-Peter
Nope. I bash mozilla and open source when applicable all the time. But try reading the ECMAscript STANDARDS. You will see this is a clear cut case of once again m$ failing to implement them properly (can you say document.all as a prime example).
And how does that compare to the single Star Fleet Battles campaign I have been in for 7 years now? Everythign is not just outside your grasp in everquest....you all start playing another game and bet your ass Sony will start making it in your grasp. The latest high level premade character packs you can buy from Sony are examples of this. The thing miniature games have going for them is once you buy them..they are yours, regardless of what the company wants or the economy demands. I have spent $20 and have enjoyed myself for years on that game (~8->12 hours a week).... how much have you blown on evercrack? Where will everquest be in 4 years when the popularity runs out?On to greater and better...where is all your valuable time spent, gone, useless. Sure there are dedicated players ever much as dedicated as real life hobbiest, but they can't support the game along. I dont' care if my games makers go out of biz or not, I can always play the game, now or 50 years from now. One of my favorite games to still play is Renegade Legion Leviathon ... FASA discountined this ~1993 and FASA itself out of biz ~1999 ... yet I dont' seem to have any issues *immersing myself in it*. Your whole enjoyment is driven my mass market economics. Evercrack can't survive a loss of population the way real life games can OR even MUD's. When you product is driven my mass market, your quality suffers and so do your hard core games. And of course people will move on, better graphics, faster games, better engines ... it doesn't end. You can stay still in the computer business. (Everquest is about to die itself...everquest 2 on the way...an upgrade == complete repurchase of everythign you already invested even if they have an import function. They will add somethign to make everquest 1 players go and buy everquest 2). My 700 page ruleset covers all I can and ever need to know to enjoy my games endlessly. Hard to upgrade minatures (well besides better paint jobs).
MMORPG ARE 5 min thrills w/ 10 minute worlds. Its the same reason chess (with a board) will be here 500 years from now and everquest will barely be remembered.
You have that wrong. I am bragging that my browser does the standards. The fact that IE doens't support standards and that codes works in IE is something to mock. I don't complain when my honda civic doesnt' blow up like good old pinto's either nor that my firestone tires don't try and kill me.
Luckily I use Mozilla and this m$ IE only javascript that supposely turns off the internet doesn't work. Score one more for open source :) .. take that bill.
(pg 12) ... My ass. I have never in 9 years of gaming seen people more immersed in a game that miniature strategic gaming. These are people that will play the SAME game through hundreds on meticulous through months. Remember times where it would take 9 hours to do 2 rounds. This is immersion in all its details. If anything, you are more immersed as you actually have to think as opposed to everything being handed to you on a plate. Thing with online games and MMORPG's is people don't have to think, its immersion for the masses. Its 5-minute thrill in 10-minute worlds where everything is provided to you.
Red Bulld / Vodka didnt' come about with marketting just to correct you. I first *discovered* Red Bull/Vodyka myself in a shitty ass old east german military bar outside Berlin. Some young german troops who were pretty involved in the club scene were drinking it. This was back in 1998, about 2 years before Red Bull even came to America and about 1 year before Red Bull started advertising everywhere in europe.
Sure America was introduced by Marketting droids, but it had a large above underground following back in 1998. If it was for the following, Red Bull never would have made in anywhere. Sure marketting pushed it along, but the huge popularity of it with european club goes gave Red Bull the money to buy that marketting.
"I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia. I wanted to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture... and kill them."
:), get to travel and live for extended periods of time, they even PAY YOU ... be all you can be, a whore in every port, fly proud, etc etc
-Full Metal Jacket
s/Vie.*ia\./so called terrorist country here/g
The military can show you the world you are missing
Look at that logo. Width / length of fingers. Anybody else think that looks like a single guys hand with 3 women hands. Just what m$ needs for a logo
.NET software here, where the microsoft women outnumber the men. Who knows, might even get you laid" :)
"Geek? Single? lonely? Love microsoft but all the sexy unix chics won't talk to you. Well this is the place for you. Place all your
About time. I used to be a lead web developer at a US public university and was delegated by my director to provide accessability for all regardless of physically handicaps. After a couple years of doing this, developing in this manner became second nature and even as a nonvisually disabled person, I became more and more annoyed by sites that just didn't care.
It amazing me at the lack of professionalism in the web developer community for not addressesing this issue w/o legal being required to. It takes all of 15 minutes to run your site through bobby and the learning curve for meeting the W3C WAI guidelines is low. To not take the little time out of your unimpaired life to make life easier for others amazes me. Especially when 70% of it is just following good web coding practices (eg non-visual cues, alt tags, not using/requiring javascript/flash, using aural spreadsheets, etc etc). People seem to think that you can't design a site not using these items or that their site will be ugly / not satisfy the client. Both are wrong. Often you can use nice visual ques AND provide a seperate or alternate site for visually impaired people. Or just layout your site so even without visual ques, it is still usable. They aren't asking for amazing aural sites, they are asking for FUNCTIONAL aural sites. As for extra cost and time you spend designing these feature, bet that time is a hell of a lot cheaper that the multimillion dollar lawsuit you can/might get slapped with.
Trying surfing the net with lynx for an entire day, see usable it is. After thinking how bad that is, try downloading / buying your favorite aural browser for a real eye opener. Its not pretty. Now try doing that your whole life.
Bah ...
... for example (using DnD) ... try using your wish spell and wishing something palty and pointless, like you character now has a pocket full of cotten candy, or the oak tree over there turns pink ..... this isn't going to happen in a MMORPG. Just do many variables in RL PnP RPG that MMORPG can't compensate for ... so instead of making a more complex game, they cut out stuff. The secret to an amazing PnP RPG is the DETAILS, something MMORPG just gloss over. In NWM ... ever tried to dig a whole with your sword for no damn reason in the middle of a path ... you can't .. why not?
... MMORPG can't match the complexities and people play stupidly because it doesn't matter in RL.
... if they fail, move on and create another ... computer companies don't get a rats ass about there customers. The niche is FPS -v RPG.
MMORPG will NEVER in the short-run (>10 years) come close to the complexity or enjoyment of PnP RPG's .
Reasoning:
In a PnP RPG, you don't have to pay monthly. Buy in once and you can enjoy it for years (you don't HAVE to buy all those expansions)
People care about their characters, you can actually do anything you want. I played in a couple PnP campaigns and you know what, when my characters died, they died. No resurection, no reloading, no paltry penality, etc etc. Plus you actually interact with real people. You don't do stupid stuff like screw your party because a) you see your friend in RL b) he will prob smack you in the face and ban you from the playing anymore. MMORPG don't have this because their primary concern is making more $$$ every month. You die, you get a paltry penality, you screw people, so what..they can't physically or socially harm you (turn computer off, go back to RL). In PnP RPG people (believe it or not) ACTUALLY RUN from encounters they might die in and use social engineering and charisma for encounters sometimes (not just fight, damn i died, guess I have to reload). And yes there were monsters do powerful regardless of your / group strenght..you just couldn't win.
Also for shits and giggle, you can't do ANYTHING you want in current MMORPG's (unlike PnP RPG)
I could ramble on for pages on this but those our my two biggies and why MMORPG will never replace PnP RGP (though might but them out of biz)
Remeber, PnP RPG takes a big investment of TIME and was a niche market, the niche drove the designers and they usually tried to make a good product.
MMORPG doesn't care about these because they are meant for the masses and monthly subscriptions
The devil is in the details.
Bah. Clubbing is a waste of time if you are looking for good electronica musik. All you hear is the same anthems remixed and remixed (think pop top 40 of electronica).
If you really plan to go out and listen to some good musik, highly suggest finding a good cafe or bar. Since the idea behind these to establishments is usually to get you to relax and chill with friends (and get your $$$), the music is usually good background noise. Since music isn't the focus of these joints, they usually can afford to play some orginal and more non-mainstream music. Clubs on the other hand are way to into trying to draw a crowd and keep them moving and coming back (and get even more of your $$$). Needless to say, you almost never will hear anything new or down tempo.
Another good way is good old shoutcast (http://wwww.shoutcast.com). Get yourself on some european streams now that CARP has killed america, listen for anythinn you like, write down the titles you enjoy.
If you are looking for an excellent place to purchase electronica music from for relatively cheap (and don't mind shipping charges), highly suggest World of Music (http://www.wom.de/).
Used to shop there locally all the time and now that I live in the states, mail order with them (they ship international for reasonable rates). And before somebody pipes in you can get most releases in the US, let me shoot you down.
1. It is cheaper to pay international shipping than purchase "imports" from a US store.
2. US releases OFTEN cost more than the same european release WHILE ALSO normally sharting you out of a song or two (or even a bonus CD)
Disclaimer: Yes I know some clubs have orginal DJ, yes I have heard some AMAZING sets at clubs. But honestly, 99% are electronica top 40. This goes world wide.
2 cents:
Orbital - Orbital
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works
Underworld - Beaucomp Fish
Mono - Formica Blues
Any thing by Portishead, Massive Attack, Viennia Scientists, Tricky, LTJ Bukem.
wh00t ... Did Rubi-Con also last year and planning to go again this year. Damn good (and even informative <grin>) convention. Reasonably priced also (read: cheap).
Clarification:
... some syntax seems essential and such, should be unchanging .+*()[] and later {}? ... This modifiers seem to be the core basic syntax of all regex engines. What next, to much a single character we replace . with <!.!> (not real code), or how about * with <%many_not_zero%> ... my point it [] is basic syntax, it doesnt' need changing.
.... Perl 6 is what?
... this seems to me to look like [^[:alpha:]^[:num:]^.*] which is completely wrong (and doens't work)
Never said they are going away. I said you now have to do some completely odd funky syntax to do character classes as we know them.
<[a-z_]> <--sure its only the addition of <> (well not really, because it soon starts looking completely unlike RegEx... [^a-b] compared to <-[a-b]> BUT character classes have alway as long as I have know been []
Now here is my fun Perl6 question.
Before I could do [^[:alpha:][:num:].*]
<-alpha><-num><-[.*]> isn't correct since that is not ONE character class.
<<-alpha><-num><-[.*]>> maybe? (though it also doesnt' look right)