Wow, interestingly enough, I have the exact opposite experience. To me, the firefox way is natural, and the opera tab system is broken. Also, opera loads pages noticeably slower than firefox (firefox == instant, opera == noticeable delay per page). Opera does seem to use less memory, but I have enough not to mind firefox taking an extra 16mb.
So what do I need to improve my firefox experience? I'm using adblock/flashblock which takes care of everything I know to care about, what don't I know to care about?
I've tried opera (as recently as a month ago) and it just doesn't compete for ease of use / friendliness with firefox IMO. It's also kind of slow loading pages (enough that I notice, whereas with firefox 1.5 I don't notice).
I'm a few hundreds of negative moderations from having to worry about my karma bonus. I only post anonymous when I really don't want something tracked back to me. Anyway, no worries, just thought I'd point that out in case you were someone in a position to fix it up.:-)
Off topic re your sig: it made me interested enough to have a look at the site. If you know those people you should let them know that their front page needs work. It doesn't make their case well at all, and took me two readings just to understand what their basic claim is, which I could have summed up in about 20 words, but they are using a page and a half full of links.
Presumably the claim is:
The 17th ammendment should be repealed to restore the balance of federal and state power by returning to the states the power to choose senators by any means rather than requiring direct election of senators.
That should be the first thing you see on the page, followed by everything else.
The constitutional quotes should have a headed section ("What the constitution says"), and the section after that needs a header like the other sections ("Arguments in favor of repeal").
I tend to think the US patent system is awful, but this particular aspect I find perfectly palatable. If you accept for a moment that some patent might be valid, it is then easy to make a leap that one way for an inventor to get a fair payout for his invention would be to sell that invention to a patent holding company with the resources to handle licensing, and to pursue claims against violators. Many many inventors do not have the resources to do all this themselves (yet surely we'd still like to encourage them to invent), and so patent holding companies make a great deal of sense as a market lubricant.
And another point to note here, is that the attorneys in question will surely not drag this out forever, in fact I think it would be safe to expect it to be well resolved in under 20 years.
Thankfully the real point of all this is that there are 450 million people, not billion. Unless of course you're using the european billion, in which case it is even more untrue.
And assuming your figure correct, that means there are 95,000 square feet per person in europe. Room enough to stretch your legs.
Yep, that's exactly what held WOW back from success. EverQuest had a completely dominant position in the world of MMORPGs, had pretty much locked up the customer base. When a superior product (WOW) came along, they just couldn't get people to try it, given their commitment to EQ. That's why WOW was such a sad failure in the marketplace. Now that WOW is in the dominant position that EQ used to hold, DDO is similarly doomed.
It's not how they calculate it at all. The $100,000 per incident is written into the laws they paid for, and is designed to make sure that there is a very high minimum punitive fee to make doing this look very scary.
I'm not sure you fully understand who owns the lines your VOIP traffic runs over. Hint: it's not your local cable co. Most of the interstate bandwidth in this country is owned by 3 companies, and none of them are cable companies. So what happens when the phone companies decide that thanks to this ruling, they'll just add a little (2 or 3 seconds) latency to your VOIP conversation?
I'm pretty sure that they are not making analogy with cars, but rather with KKK cross burning. As in 'these things are as hot as a KKK cross fire!' I'm sure you'll see a fold out in Computer Gaming World any time now with such imagery selling these cards.
You have to read the linked rumors, which explain that the 7800 GTX 512 may be no longer for sale as of real soon now. If those cards aren't available, then the x1800xt appears a lot more favorably.
What the rumors leave out of course is that the 7800 gtx 512 will be replaced by something better.
Diablo 2 has one-use (stat boosters), multi-use(spell items), and permanent (armor/weapons) all of which are randomly generated and have randomly picked effects with randomly generated intensity levels. Like all good RPG's the random effects come from a fixed list, which is used to rule out unbalancing items.
Items are generated from a 64 bit random key, combined with an 8bit power level (used to limit the intensity of low level items).
Pretty much all of the studios are doing the same thing (flooding imdb and other popular review sites with positive reviews before the theatrical release). I don't think there is any way to build a trustworthy user review movie web site. Your best bet for a mildly accurate review of a movie is probably the tomatometer. At least there you're getting a semi trustable filter on a large number of reviews.
Even there you'll run into trouble. Batman Begins got a flood of paid-for positives and managed to come in at 83% in spite of that movie's extreme level of suckage. One helpful tip to avoid this problem: compare the negative reviews to the positive. In this particular movie, you have an extreme disparity in the reviews. The positives are glowing while the negatives thought it was a horrible movie. When that happens you can probably bet on the positives being bought and paid for.
The best thing I've found when trying to gauge the quality of a movie: read some negative reviews. See if you feel like you can live with what they didn't like. Reading positive reviews is comparatively useless.
Diablo 2 has random everything that you listed for nethack. It also offers permanent character death.
Permanent character death will never appeal to more than a tiny fraction of players, though, particularly in a MMORPG where PvP is viewed as a greater necessity. There are just too many opportunities for griefers and bad luck to ruin the experience for the common player (lagdeath).
MMORPGS can make as much use of randomly generated content as any RPG game can. As a designer, you just have to know that random content is never (at least not soon) going to tell a great story arch, so you better make sure it stays out of the way of your story arch.
No, I think you've really misunderstood how this worked. People who found his site through the forwarder (and this was many of them because the forwarder had registered as the authoritative source of his show with many search engines) and had 'bookmarked' his show for regular viewing had their existing 'bookmarks' invalidated when the forwarder stopped forwarding. When a forwarder (podjacker) stops forwarding, that has a different impact than when a linker (google) stops linking. One affects both current and future audience members, the other impacts only future audience members.
Agreed, it's not at all a new problem. It just seems that some people are suggesting it's not a problem at all.
Ideally, we need the same solution here that we have with URL's and search engines: make a best effort to assure that the major search engines are linking to the most legitimate source of content.
But if you block the visitor (your audience) coming from this other site, how can they reach you? Even worse, if this site registered as being the source for your show on the major search engines, then you're really screwed!
Exactly. They not only were misleading about whether they were a linker or a redirector, they also registered elsewhere using the redirector rather than the link.
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Wow, interestingly enough, I have the exact opposite experience. To me, the firefox way is natural, and the opera tab system is broken. Also, opera loads pages noticeably slower than firefox (firefox == instant, opera == noticeable delay per page). Opera does seem to use less memory, but I have enough not to mind firefox taking an extra 16mb.
So what do I need to improve my firefox experience? I'm using adblock/flashblock which takes care of everything I know to care about, what don't I know to care about?
I've tried opera (as recently as a month ago) and it just doesn't compete for ease of use / friendliness with firefox IMO. It's also kind of slow loading pages (enough that I notice, whereas with firefox 1.5 I don't notice).
If he's ben. Maybe he's someone else who just has a man-crush on ben.
I'm a few hundreds of negative moderations from having to worry about my karma bonus. I only post anonymous when I really don't want something tracked back to me. Anyway, no worries, just thought I'd point that out in case you were someone in a position to fix it up. :-)
Off topic re your sig: it made me interested enough to have a look at the site. If you know those people you should let them know that their front page needs work. It doesn't make their case well at all, and took me two readings just to understand what their basic claim is, which I could have summed up in about 20 words, but they are using a page and a half full of links.
Presumably the claim is:
The 17th ammendment should be repealed to restore the balance of federal and state power by returning to the states the power to choose senators by any means rather than requiring direct election of senators.
That should be the first thing you see on the page, followed by everything else.
The constitutional quotes should have a headed section ("What the constitution says"), and the section after that needs a header like the other sections ("Arguments in favor of repeal").
I tend to think the US patent system is awful, but this particular aspect I find perfectly palatable. If you accept for a moment that some patent might be valid, it is then easy to make a leap that one way for an inventor to get a fair payout for his invention would be to sell that invention to a patent holding company with the resources to handle licensing, and to pursue claims against violators. Many many inventors do not have the resources to do all this themselves (yet surely we'd still like to encourage them to invent), and so patent holding companies make a great deal of sense as a market lubricant.
And another point to note here, is that the attorneys in question will surely not drag this out forever, in fact I think it would be safe to expect it to be well resolved in under 20 years.
Thankfully the real point of all this is that there are 450 million people, not billion. Unless of course you're using the european billion, in which case it is even more untrue.
And assuming your figure correct, that means there are 95,000 square feet per person in europe. Room enough to stretch your legs.
Yep, that's exactly what held WOW back from success. EverQuest had a completely dominant position in the world of MMORPGs, had pretty much locked up the customer base. When a superior product (WOW) came along, they just couldn't get people to try it, given their commitment to EQ. That's why WOW was such a sad failure in the marketplace. Now that WOW is in the dominant position that EQ used to hold, DDO is similarly doomed.
It's not how they calculate it at all. The $100,000 per incident is written into the laws they paid for, and is designed to make sure that there is a very high minimum punitive fee to make doing this look very scary.
Come on mods, this post isn't funny, it's depressingly true and therefore informative.
I'm not sure you fully understand who owns the lines your VOIP traffic runs over. Hint: it's not your local cable co. Most of the interstate bandwidth in this country is owned by 3 companies, and none of them are cable companies. So what happens when the phone companies decide that thanks to this ruling, they'll just add a little (2 or 3 seconds) latency to your VOIP conversation?
I'm pretty sure that they are not making analogy with cars, but rather with KKK cross burning. As in 'these things are as hot as a KKK cross fire!' I'm sure you'll see a fold out in Computer Gaming World any time now with such imagery selling these cards.
You have to read the linked rumors, which explain that the 7800 GTX 512 may be no longer for sale as of real soon now. If those cards aren't available, then the x1800xt appears a lot more favorably.
What the rumors leave out of course is that the 7800 gtx 512 will be replaced by something better.
Thanks, I had not heard of that one before.
3 (out of 5) stars for chronicles of narnia. 4 Stars for Batman Begins, which is somewhat worrisome.
Diablo 2 has one-use (stat boosters), multi-use(spell items), and permanent (armor/weapons) all of which are randomly generated and have randomly picked effects with randomly generated intensity levels. Like all good RPG's the random effects come from a fixed list, which is used to rule out unbalancing items.
Items are generated from a 64 bit random key, combined with an 8bit power level (used to limit the intensity of low level items).
All I see is the silver bottom!
Pretty much all of the studios are doing the same thing (flooding imdb and other popular review sites with positive reviews before the theatrical release). I don't think there is any way to build a trustworthy user review movie web site. Your best bet for a mildly accurate review of a movie is probably the tomatometer. At least there you're getting a semi trustable filter on a large number of reviews.
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http://www.rottentomatoes.com/
Note that their rating for narnia is only 76%
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/chronicles_of_nar
I try to avoid seeing anything under 80%
Even there you'll run into trouble. Batman Begins got a flood of paid-for positives and managed to come in at 83% in spite of that movie's extreme level of suckage. One helpful tip to avoid this problem: compare the negative reviews to the positive. In this particular movie, you have an extreme disparity in the reviews. The positives are glowing while the negatives thought it was a horrible movie. When that happens you can probably bet on the positives being bought and paid for.
The best thing I've found when trying to gauge the quality of a movie: read some negative reviews. See if you feel like you can live with what they didn't like. Reading positive reviews is comparatively useless.
Diablo 2 has random everything that you listed for nethack. It also offers permanent character death.
Permanent character death will never appeal to more than a tiny fraction of players, though, particularly in a MMORPG where PvP is viewed as a greater necessity. There are just too many opportunities for griefers and bad luck to ruin the experience for the common player (lagdeath).
MMORPGS can make as much use of randomly generated content as any RPG game can. As a designer, you just have to know that random content is never (at least not soon) going to tell a great story arch, so you better make sure it stays out of the way of your story arch.
Wow, 2x +5 funny for a dup comment, in the same thread no less. You are the matrix!
No, I think you've really misunderstood how this worked. People who found his site through the forwarder (and this was many of them because the forwarder had registered as the authoritative source of his show with many search engines) and had 'bookmarked' his show for regular viewing had their existing 'bookmarks' invalidated when the forwarder stopped forwarding. When a forwarder (podjacker) stops forwarding, that has a different impact than when a linker (google) stops linking. One affects both current and future audience members, the other impacts only future audience members.
Aww man, whoever you are you missed out on a free + 5 funny moderation for sure. That was an instant classic.
Agreed, it's not at all a new problem. It just seems that some people are suggesting it's not a problem at all.
Ideally, we need the same solution here that we have with URL's and search engines: make a best effort to assure that the major search engines are linking to the most legitimate source of content.
But if you block the visitor (your audience) coming from this other site, how can they reach you? Even worse, if this site registered as being the source for your show on the major search engines, then you're really screwed!
Exactly. They not only were misleading about whether they were a linker or a redirector, they also registered elsewhere using the redirector rather than the link.
That's like saying if google delisted your website, it's ok if everyone who has a bookmark for your site can't reach you any more.