The grass is always greener on the other side. Hence the wars and such would still exist as any condition that exist with current population can exist with smaller populations.
solve these just by reducing the population.
1. Religious difference. 2. Resource difference (from your land is more fertile, has more shiny rocks, is upwind, you name it) 3. Global Warming (as if its population based, we would just blame it on something else, lets see, the previous conditions work)
The harsh reality is that most of the world sucks but its far easier to blame Western countries, in paticular the US, for the world's problems that to actually admit the real problem. the real problem is that there are millions of people who needlessly die because no one will act. Why won't they act? Because of the same problems that would occur at 1/10th the population - they don't agree with you because of your religion, your country, you choice of house colors. The idea you propose would have been fine if SOMEONE ELSE proposed it, but coming from you... well... do you get the freaking idea?
We still won't do whats right in Dafur and similar because of these issues. Afraid we might upset group A if we intervene, so instead of hurting their feelings we let millions die.
We had WARS, famine, disease, and such back before we had as many people in the world as exist in the US alone. Whats changed? Just the fact we can add a comma or two to the number
Any section dealing with religion, politics, and the environment should be a hoot!
After all, which experts are they going to determine are the real experts?
The one thing about experts is that are too many of them for a given subject and they rarely agree. Oh, a degree, PhD, or more doesn't mean your the expert they are looking for or the one anyone else wants.
That its perfectly fine for one side to have exceptions to issues the other side but the reverse is not true.
My problem with the whole GW crowd is how they will quickly object or attempt to marginalize anything which doesn't support their view. At the same time any little piece of information which supports their view is held forth as indisputable fact.
Look, we don't know half of what we think we do. The one great thing about science in this day and age is that we are continously changing what we know as fact as our ability to observe becomes better and better. Old theories that were hard to prove can be supported and previous "unalterable" facts are dismissed.
We can barely predict the weather from day to day let alone week to week. We can't accurately predict the number of hurricanes, typhoons, or the like. Yet at the same time you want me to believe that enough is known to tell me that we are all going to die in 10 years?
Just admit you know about as much about the climate as the other side. Fact is, we are still discovering the variables. In no shape or form can you have the definitive anwser without all the variables.
He didn't ground it, NASA did. He just killed it and seems to be sticking to his guns on that one. For that I will cheer on his "vision" for space exploration.
It finally means we are not bound to a billion dollar baby, something that has been sucking the life out of NASA since the 80s. Maybe if launches didn't cost so much we might actually put more up there???
I know you were being sarcastic but the point remains, no one would kill it before and there were just as many reasons to do so before. Now at least one or more of the replacement ideas will finally get off the ground. (at the rate we were going the shuttle would be the b52 of space)
Please let us hope we don't get saddled with another layer of crap like SOX did.
Yes some corporations have issues and their members break laws, but as it has been show they will pay their due under laws that existed at the time of the infraciton. Yet Congress is always willing to pander to the public by casting infrequent problems as "normal day on the job" and portray all corporations as "bogeymen". All that results is new layer upon layer of government regulation and more money spent to comply with regulations that needless duplicate existing regulations. Usually the only outcome is a whole different set of penalties which allow government agencies to throw who groups of charges at the wall in hopes something sticks.
In other words, look at rape cases. If the rape case doesn't float they turn around and charge you with a hate crime and so and so on. This is what is really happening, the government is attempting to circumvent the fact they cannot prosecute you multiple times. If they lose one way they just come back with another law and claim its wholly different.
So in the end, many businesses will needly get saddled with higher compliance costs and then pass them down to the consumer raising the costs of living for everyone.
So, at the first hints of new regulation write your Congressmen and let them know, no more crap laws, just enforce the ones they have.
Sorry, the phone companies are only partly to blame.
All these wonderful advances in connectivity get hamstrung more by regulation than anything else.
Going to build high speed internet, well your going to have to install in Councilman Payoff's district too.
or for disadvanataged group #88
or for the children
or for the schools.
In otherwords, anything that keeps politicians in their jobs, their friends and family employed, will be done before the people actually desiring the service, the ones the company really wants to sell it to, get the service.
I was thinking the same thing. Very much like America before Japan forced official entry into the war. Very content with themselves and position in the world.
Just as it took America years to spin up properly, leveraging her resources, Intel now has come back to fight more prepared and ready for the long haul. The question that remains is, can AMD keep up with an Intel obviously aware of what the mission is?
I would hope that with AMDs recent acquisitions that they not only keep up but open some new areas as well. As mentioned on other threads, 80 core CPUs won't replace dedicated graphic cards but if all the cores are not the same then you can do about anything. Essentially bringing the "cell idea" to the x86 market.
Hey, if my PC can get down the size of a cell phone with my only needing to buy stand alone devices I am all for it. I would love to have nothing more than machines the size of Apple's Mac Mini with all the bells and whistles expected out of top end machines.
My 05 Murano does not have a specific kit from Nissan for it but I use the XTerra's kit.
It plugs into an extra coupling on the Satellite connection. From there it goes to a "magic box" which has a standard docking cable attachment.
My iPod charges and plays while hooked up. While the stereo controls are not intuitive, forum help was great, I can select ANY playlist I want. I can skip forward and back with the steering wheel controls and control the volume as well. To change playlist I have to use the far selection button on the Bose 6CD In-dash player. I can select playlist, artist, etc - just as if I were using the iPod directly. Selecting "Enter" is one of the buttons on the left. Scrolling between artists/playlists takes a second to response but can be done with the tuning nob.
Not the best but from it sounds like its far better than most setups. I get the full quality of playback as its sourced from the dock connector.
This works with or without the fancy Navigation screen. Non-navigation equipped Murano's have an Orange LED screen that displays text just fine.
One day they might even have a real unit for my specific model and year. I have not used the 6CD player since I hooked up the iPod. It cost around 190 and I got it from http://yournissanparts.com/
I know its fashionably correct on/. to bash Wal-Mart. Actually it seems the domain of sites like this to bash any big company. Microsoft, Starbucks, Wal-Mart, Amazaon, and now even Valve. I guess once you become successful you no longer to be lauded but instead picked on for any little thing that can be found. Better yet throw in buzzwords, hearsay, parrot what others say, and you can score big on/.
Yeah, as my subject line reads, my Cheerios must be from China too. Whats next? Claim that Wal-Mart put all the mom & pop grocery stores out of business? Sorry, I don't buy that line. I love Wal-Mart superstores. Why? Because they cut my grocery bills from 20-40% depending on what I am buying. Kroger, Publix, Ingles, and the rest can go to hell. I have seen the identical item a third less at Wal-Mart. Who are you going to claim they are exploiting by selling Cereal for less? What about orange juice and milk?
Wal-Mart leverages scale to bring prices down. They don't cater to the snobbish high end crowd with their general goods. The provides goods to people who don't have the luxury of wasting money at a coffee shop, buying PCs, and the latest hybrid-car. The grocery side is a whole 'nuther business as they sell exactly what I can buy elsewhere from the big chain supermarkets, just for a lot less.
If Wal-Mart can keep the prices of DVDs and similar down then by all means I hope they do. The first key to having money is not wasting it. If you want to pay 17-24 per DVD just so you don't have to buy it at Wal-Mart then by all means do so. I will buy it and take that extra money and use it where I want it, not just give it to ANOTHER corporate interest.
Wal-Mart isn't perfect but neither is any other retailer. Go find retailers that market American made items exclusively... I can go to Sears, Penny's, Macys, and other big chains and find items made in China as well. Why not bash them for doing what you bash Wal-Mart for?
Better yet, why not jump on the governments that deal with China as well? USA, Canada, and members of the EU all treat China with kid gloves. Yet who is held more accountable? A business? I mean, get real. Who could have a bigger influence? The world caved and gave China the 2008 Olympics. Before we start bashing a business for dealing with China maybe we should look towards our own governments and ask why its okay for them to ignore all these issues and its not okay for a business.
Lower income families with a credit card can score very well. A big portion of your rating is the difference between what you owe and what your limit it. Add in timely payments and they could have a stellar rating. Income is not a factor in your rating!
Anyone who uses credit without the ability to repay is stupid. There are so many ways that many people who are "stretched" can cut back and do so quickly.
No more smokes No more booze Store brand ONLY No eating out No movies out High Speed Internet becomes cheapie dial up service. All those cable channels - into basic cable Cellphone - into pay by the minute plans Any monthly not bound by contract should be terminated.
The bane of most people is store credit cards. That 18months no interest looks great.. then.
Credit is a priveledge. It also is a responsbility. Excuses don't cut it. All those fees and penalties on credit cards exist because too many people don't pay them off. So those who can pay for it are stuck with the bill.
Yeah I know the exceptions, but I have seen families crunch down hard to do it. Medical expenses... time to downsize the home... the cars... you name it. Real families will and do so. Putting it off or whining about it only makes it worse.
MS would be in court so fast being accused of trying to monopolize, exploit their "monopoly", etc if they followed the idea put forward that they give away the OS to specific clients just to prevent any other OS//Linux// from gaining ground. On the server side there are only so many *nix/Novell installations to be consumed, once that is done seeing who takes the most of the others installations will show us the real market.
On a side note, Microsoft doesn't need to "oust Linux". Yet it can make Linux irrelevant by maintaining the market percentage it has or combining forces with someone else to do so. OS/X is a great alternative and doesn't hurt MS nearly as much anymore. Why? Well there is that boot camp for the new machines which can result in continued Windows use and that little thing called "Office".
The worse thing that could come down the pike for Linux is for Apple to get into the server OS market. Give the best of the *nix world with a friendly and intuitive face.
Any game can be made to look stupid,silly, or pointless if you just pick out something you don't like and beat it to death.
Most MMORPGs have FedEx, collection, and rescue style quests. Hell many stories have the very same elements. One thing people who put forth your comment is that they never offer anything realistic as an alternative to the existance of the type of "story/quest" they bemoan.
I bet you never read the complete text of the quests involved, let alone the chat of the NPCs giving it to you? There is a great deal of lore in the game and its revealed through quests. Yeah there are many simple quests but you have to have those to cover every level of player expertise. I know players who don't do instances simply because the team coordination is beyond them or even a simple hour of grouped play rubs them wrong. Yet they still play the game. They do the simple quests.
Blizzard put these quests in the game to relay a story but also to provide a distraction from the leveling process. I know of many cases where focusing on the quest objective, even the simple/silly ones, has made a level or two go by nearly unnoticed.
Just for as many people who bemoan the quests you do there are probably an equal number who complain about the involved ones that require grouping. How does a company like Blizzard win in that case? Simple, try to give each type of player something they want.
the best reply Blizzard can make to people who complain about the game; many of whom do not subscribe or ever did, is to point you to the number of players and server where many more people are actively enjoying the game.
There are more people playing WOW than the other major US market games at any one time, whose doing the best at getting it right?
the problem I have with these machines is that some government agencies were providing to people who had fitness handicaps (lardasses) as a health benefit covered because of the ADA.
Was really funny watching Atlanta issue a few of the machines to fat cops, cops who could not walk a beat if they had too. Seemed a few other government agencies began looking at these because of "union" rules interest.
I would not mind the machines for people with genuine handicaps, but I certainly don't want to be forced to buy them with my tax money. There are other alternatives that worked for many years before without the need to spend an exhorbinant amount of money.
The problem with genorisity of this sort is that its all so very easy to sell because its not your money and its a guilt trip if you oppose.
A great invention, but too costly and limited in its current form.
Damn freaks won't stay on their hate filled message boards and have to use public areas to stir up trouble and sow FUD.
I have caught some of the crap that occurs and most of it is from one side. Still both sides engage in it and its just nuts. Best are the pieces on foreign people who are controversial and alive.
Frankly they don't have a choice. Wiki was fine until everyone who had a chip on their shoulder and the anonyminity of the internet to hide behind found it.
Hell verification at the level of banking would probably be required to keep it civil. The selfishness of these prima donnas is such that they would ruin such a great resource for the rest of us.
Being a game designer is not all fun and games. Works the same in many industries. A lot of people want to do it basing their desire on what they see at the end of rainbow. If you totally ignore that climb to the top it makes many any job look great.
It really is part of the instant gratification, I deserve everything, entitlement attitude too many come out of schools with. Reality sucks and it hits many of them hard. Most who never had to do anything harder than whine to two parents to get what they wanted.
Game programming isn't simple and its not going to be exciting all the time if ever. Programming is programming. The same for doing the art that makes games look as good as they do. So you did a model, big deal. Now do X number of them, all to the same level of quality, and get it done by October. Now its work.
We all know people who do nothing than tell us and everyone else how they would do something better or different. Its a never ending story for many. "If I had done this it would have been with bazillion bit textures and optimized for octa-core machines" or whatnot.
Hell if any aspect of the game industry was easy many of us would be doing it. Instead the two easiest aspects of the industry to be part of are is the consumer end and the dreamer.
If anything schools catering to this crowd might actually make some real game designer, programmers, or artists out of the dreamers. Some need the structure to follow through on their dreams. With it all laid out before them, the steps to follow, maybe getting that dream to be reality will happen. Hell, turn the grade point system into points and layout the course like a game and tell them, X points and you win:)
As such you would be clueless as to why people continue to play the game. See, they are playing a game. You were in a race, with what no one knows, but obviously you did not come to play. First and foremost, you cannot win at a MMORPG, so where is the rush?
Apparently the MMORPG crowd you hang with is a minority. Then again people with your mindset normally are. Do you jump from game to game? If you only spent a month in WOW I can't see how you spend more in any other.
Yeah this borders on bashing but if I had a PENNY for everyone who claims WOW is dieing or that everyone they know doesn't play it I would be so rich it would be silly.
Oooh, there is one big market waiting for this. Who cares about advertising, visibility is even more important. Dayling running can be made safer with clothing that shifts geometric patterns and shifting colors. Ads on the clothing could be used to reduce the price so people actually wear it... and if not ads then perhaps some customizable imagery would be good to.
Still, the safety aspects are hard to ignore with stuff like this. If the power use is low enough then self lighting (pulsing/blinking) emergency gear would be another great application (think of aircraft seats, lifevests, etc). Get lost in the woods then at night a tent or even your jacket if woven with this material could be set to flash etc.
The people trying to create this thing are separated from the very people they claim they are doing it for. Until critical mass is reached its pointless to worry about an African wiki coming into being. When it is necessary it will happen. Just because a bunch of people who "know better" than the natives doesn't make it right.
A wiki is a great idea but it also eats a lot of leisure time. Many in those nations don't have the luxury of that time let alone the means to even access it.
I know its not what they want// the wiki guys// but damn if doesn't sound like a bunch of elites trying to bring religon to the savages all over again.
Feed them, clothe them, and give them the means to do so themselves. The rest will tend to itself. We've come a long way in 200 years but we were trying as a whole, Africa has been fractured for so long it will take them hopefully less than half the time to do the same, they just have to see it as a goal. First needed is freeing the people from the dictatorships that keep their societies backwards.
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The grass is always greener on the other side. Hence the wars and such would still exist as any condition that exist with current population can exist with smaller populations.
solve these just by reducing the population.
1. Religious difference.
2. Resource difference (from your land is more fertile, has more shiny rocks, is upwind, you name it)
3. Global Warming (as if its population based, we would just blame it on something else, lets see, the previous conditions work)
The harsh reality is that most of the world sucks but its far easier to blame Western countries, in paticular the US, for the world's problems that to actually admit the real problem. the real problem is that there are millions of people who needlessly die because no one will act. Why won't they act? Because of the same problems that would occur at 1/10th the population - they don't agree with you because of your religion, your country, you choice of house colors. The idea you propose would have been fine if SOMEONE ELSE proposed it, but coming from you... well... do you get the freaking idea?
We still won't do whats right in Dafur and similar because of these issues. Afraid we might upset group A if we intervene, so instead of hurting their feelings we let millions die.
We had WARS, famine, disease, and such back before we had as many people in the world as exist in the US alone. Whats changed? Just the fact we can add a comma or two to the number
Sorry but I think the kernel should be off limits. Leave that to Microsoft and hold them wholly accountable to preventing issues with it.
On one hand people bitch about MS's lack of security yet when they do essentially what is asked it is claimed they only did it to be uncompetitive.
Make up your mind. Or is just permanent open season on MS?
So we don't repeat him.
Any section dealing with religion, politics, and the environment should be a hoot!
After all, which experts are they going to determine are the real experts?
The one thing about experts is that are too many of them for a given subject and they rarely agree. Oh, a degree, PhD, or more doesn't mean your the expert they are looking for or the one anyone else wants.
Peer review == community bias.
Who forms their community will be interesting.
That its perfectly fine for one side to have exceptions to issues the other side but the reverse is not true.
My problem with the whole GW crowd is how they will quickly object or attempt to marginalize anything which doesn't support their view. At the same time any little piece of information which supports their view is held forth as indisputable fact.
Look, we don't know half of what we think we do. The one great thing about science in this day and age is that we are continously changing what we know as fact as our ability to observe becomes better and better. Old theories that were hard to prove can be supported and previous "unalterable" facts are dismissed.
We can barely predict the weather from day to day let alone week to week. We can't accurately predict the number of hurricanes, typhoons, or the like. Yet at the same time you want me to believe that enough is known to tell me that we are all going to die in 10 years?
Just admit you know about as much about the climate as the other side. Fact is, we are still discovering the variables. In no shape or form can you have the definitive anwser without all the variables.
He didn't ground it, NASA did. He just killed it and seems to be sticking to his guns on that one. For that I will cheer on his "vision" for space exploration.
It finally means we are not bound to a billion dollar baby, something that has been sucking the life out of NASA since the 80s. Maybe if launches didn't cost so much we might actually put more up there???
I know you were being sarcastic but the point remains, no one would kill it before and there were just as many reasons to do so before. Now at least one or more of the replacement ideas will finally get off the ground. (at the rate we were going the shuttle would be the b52 of space)
you obviously don't watch local news.
Please let us hope we don't get saddled with another layer of crap like SOX did.
Yes some corporations have issues and their members break laws, but as it has been show they will pay their due under laws that existed at the time of the infraciton. Yet Congress is always willing to pander to the public by casting infrequent problems as "normal day on the job" and portray all corporations as "bogeymen". All that results is new layer upon layer of government regulation and more money spent to comply with regulations that needless duplicate existing regulations. Usually the only outcome is a whole different set of penalties which allow government agencies to throw who groups of charges at the wall in hopes something sticks.
In other words, look at rape cases. If the rape case doesn't float they turn around and charge you with a hate crime and so and so on. This is what is really happening, the government is attempting to circumvent the fact they cannot prosecute you multiple times. If they lose one way they just come back with another law and claim its wholly different.
So in the end, many businesses will needly get saddled with higher compliance costs and then pass them down to the consumer raising the costs of living for everyone.
So, at the first hints of new regulation write your Congressmen and let them know, no more crap laws, just enforce the ones they have.
not bad.
Sorry, the phone companies are only partly to blame.
All these wonderful advances in connectivity get hamstrung more by regulation than anything else.
Going to build high speed internet, well your going to have to install in Councilman Payoff's district too.
or for disadvanataged group #88
or for the children
or for the schools.
In otherwords, anything that keeps politicians in their jobs, their friends and family employed, will be done before the people actually desiring the service, the ones the company really wants to sell it to, get the service.
I was thinking the same thing. Very much like America before Japan forced official entry into the war. Very content with themselves and position in the world.
Just as it took America years to spin up properly, leveraging her resources, Intel now has come back to fight more prepared and ready for the long haul. The question that remains is, can AMD keep up with an Intel obviously aware of what the mission is?
I would hope that with AMDs recent acquisitions that they not only keep up but open some new areas as well. As mentioned on other threads, 80 core CPUs won't replace dedicated graphic cards but if all the cores are not the same then you can do about anything. Essentially bringing the "cell idea" to the x86 market.
Hey, if my PC can get down the size of a cell phone with my only needing to buy stand alone devices I am all for it. I would love to have nothing more than machines the size of Apple's Mac Mini with all the bells and whistles expected out of top end machines.
My 05 Murano does not have a specific kit from Nissan for it but I use the XTerra's kit.
It plugs into an extra coupling on the Satellite connection. From there it goes to a "magic box" which has a standard docking cable attachment.
My iPod charges and plays while hooked up. While the stereo controls are not intuitive, forum help was great, I can select ANY playlist I want. I can skip forward and back with the steering wheel controls and control the volume as well. To change playlist I have to use the far selection button on the Bose 6CD In-dash player. I can select playlist, artist, etc - just as if I were using the iPod directly. Selecting "Enter" is one of the buttons on the left. Scrolling between artists/playlists takes a second to response but can be done with the tuning nob.
Not the best but from it sounds like its far better than most setups. I get the full quality of playback as its sourced from the dock connector.
This works with or without the fancy Navigation screen. Non-navigation equipped Murano's have an Orange LED screen that displays text just fine.
One day they might even have a real unit for my specific model and year. I have not used the 6CD player since I hooked up the iPod. It cost around 190 and I got it from http://yournissanparts.com/
I know its fashionably correct on /. to bash Wal-Mart. Actually it seems the domain of sites like this to bash any big company. Microsoft, Starbucks, Wal-Mart, Amazaon, and now even Valve. I guess once you become successful you no longer to be lauded but instead picked on for any little thing that can be found. Better yet throw in buzzwords, hearsay, parrot what others say, and you can score big on /.
Yeah, as my subject line reads, my Cheerios must be from China too. Whats next? Claim that Wal-Mart put all the mom & pop grocery stores out of business? Sorry, I don't buy that line. I love Wal-Mart superstores. Why? Because they cut my grocery bills from 20-40% depending on what I am buying. Kroger, Publix, Ingles, and the rest can go to hell. I have seen the identical item a third less at Wal-Mart. Who are you going to claim they are exploiting by selling Cereal for less? What about orange juice and milk?
Wal-Mart leverages scale to bring prices down. They don't cater to the snobbish high end crowd with their general goods. The provides goods to people who don't have the luxury of wasting money at a coffee shop, buying PCs, and the latest hybrid-car. The grocery side is a whole 'nuther business as they sell exactly what I can buy elsewhere from the big chain supermarkets, just for a lot less.
If Wal-Mart can keep the prices of DVDs and similar down then by all means I hope they do. The first key to having money is not wasting it. If you want to pay 17-24 per DVD just so you don't have to buy it at Wal-Mart then by all means do so. I will buy it and take that extra money and use it where I want it, not just give it to ANOTHER corporate interest.
Wal-Mart isn't perfect but neither is any other retailer. Go find retailers that market American made items exclusively... I can go to Sears, Penny's, Macys, and other big chains and find items made in China as well. Why not bash them for doing what you bash Wal-Mart for?
Better yet, why not jump on the governments that deal with China as well? USA, Canada, and members of the EU all treat China with kid gloves. Yet who is held more accountable? A business? I mean, get real. Who could have a bigger influence? The world caved and gave China the 2008 Olympics. Before we start bashing a business for dealing with China maybe we should look towards our own governments and ask why its okay for them to ignore all these issues and its not okay for a business.
Lower income families with a credit card can score very well. A big portion of your rating is the difference between what you owe and what your limit it. Add in timely payments and they could have a stellar rating. Income is not a factor in your rating!
Anyone who uses credit without the ability to repay is stupid. There are so many ways that many people who are "stretched" can cut back and do so quickly.
No more smokes
No more booze
Store brand ONLY
No eating out
No movies out
High Speed Internet becomes cheapie dial up service.
All those cable channels - into basic cable
Cellphone - into pay by the minute plans
Any monthly not bound by contract should be terminated.
The bane of most people is store credit cards. That 18months no interest looks great.. then.
Credit is a priveledge. It also is a responsbility. Excuses don't cut it. All those fees and penalties on credit cards exist because too many people don't pay them off. So those who can pay for it are stuck with the bill.
Yeah I know the exceptions, but I have seen families crunch down hard to do it. Medical expenses... time to downsize the home... the cars... you name it. Real families will and do so. Putting it off or whining about it only makes it worse.
MS would be in court so fast being accused of trying to monopolize, exploit their "monopoly", etc if they followed the idea put forward that they give away the OS to specific clients just to prevent any other OS //Linux// from gaining ground. On the server side there are only so many *nix/Novell installations to be consumed, once that is done seeing who takes the most of the others installations will show us the real market.
On a side note, Microsoft doesn't need to "oust Linux". Yet it can make Linux irrelevant by maintaining the market percentage it has or combining forces with someone else to do so. OS/X is a great alternative and doesn't hurt MS nearly as much anymore. Why? Well there is that boot camp for the new machines which can result in continued Windows use and that little thing called "Office".
The worse thing that could come down the pike for Linux is for Apple to get into the server OS market. Give the best of the *nix world with a friendly and intuitive face.
thats what really want to know, how many FPS does it give us.
Any game can be made to look stupid,silly, or pointless if you just pick out something you don't like and beat it to death.
Most MMORPGs have FedEx, collection, and rescue style quests. Hell many stories have the very same elements. One thing people who put forth your comment is that they never offer anything realistic as an alternative to the existance of the type of "story/quest" they bemoan.
I bet you never read the complete text of the quests involved, let alone the chat of the NPCs giving it to you? There is a great deal of lore in the game and its revealed through quests. Yeah there are many simple quests but you have to have those to cover every level of player expertise. I know players who don't do instances simply because the team coordination is beyond them or even a simple hour of grouped play rubs them wrong. Yet they still play the game. They do the simple quests.
Blizzard put these quests in the game to relay a story but also to provide a distraction from the leveling process. I know of many cases where focusing on the quest objective, even the simple/silly ones, has made a level or two go by nearly unnoticed.
Just for as many people who bemoan the quests you do there are probably an equal number who complain about the involved ones that require grouping. How does a company like Blizzard win in that case? Simple, try to give each type of player something they want.
the best reply Blizzard can make to people who complain about the game; many of whom do not subscribe or ever did, is to point you to the number of players and server where many more people are actively enjoying the game.
There are more people playing WOW than the other major US market games at any one time, whose doing the best at getting it right?
the problem I have with these machines is that some government agencies were providing to people who had fitness handicaps (lardasses) as a health benefit covered because of the ADA.
Was really funny watching Atlanta issue a few of the machines to fat cops, cops who could not walk a beat if they had too. Seemed a few other government agencies began looking at these because of "union" rules interest.
I would not mind the machines for people with genuine handicaps, but I certainly don't want to be forced to buy them with my tax money. There are other alternatives that worked for many years before without the need to spend an exhorbinant amount of money.
The problem with genorisity of this sort is that its all so very easy to sell because its not your money and its a guilt trip if you oppose.
A great invention, but too costly and limited in its current form.
Damn freaks won't stay on their hate filled message boards and have to use public areas to stir up trouble and sow FUD.
I have caught some of the crap that occurs and most of it is from one side. Still both sides engage in it and its just nuts. Best are the pieces on foreign people who are controversial and alive.
Frankly they don't have a choice. Wiki was fine until everyone who had a chip on their shoulder and the anonyminity of the internet to hide behind found it.
Hell verification at the level of banking would probably be required to keep it civil. The selfishness of these prima donnas is such that they would ruin such a great resource for the rest of us.
Does not appear to be any minorities on the board at Apple.
Not saying that there should be, just using google for images on the names resulted in none being obvious.
Being a game designer is not all fun and games. Works the same in many industries. A lot of people want to do it basing their desire on what they see at the end of rainbow. If you totally ignore that climb to the top it makes many any job look great.
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It really is part of the instant gratification, I deserve everything, entitlement attitude too many come out of schools with. Reality sucks and it hits many of them hard. Most who never had to do anything harder than whine to two parents to get what they wanted.
Game programming isn't simple and its not going to be exciting all the time if ever. Programming is programming. The same for doing the art that makes games look as good as they do. So you did a model, big deal. Now do X number of them, all to the same level of quality, and get it done by October. Now its work.
We all know people who do nothing than tell us and everyone else how they would do something better or different. Its a never ending story for many. "If I had done this it would have been with bazillion bit textures and optimized for octa-core machines" or whatnot.
Hell if any aspect of the game industry was easy many of us would be doing it. Instead the two easiest aspects of the industry to be part of are is the consumer end and the dreamer.
If anything schools catering to this crowd might actually make some real game designer, programmers, or artists out of the dreamers. Some need the structure to follow through on their dreams. With it all laid out before them, the steps to follow, maybe getting that dream to be reality will happen. Hell, turn the grade point system into points and layout the course like a game and tell them, X points and you win
I don't care if they redo the special effects, but leave the font and title music alone. That is part of the Star Trek many of us remember fondly.
You got it right, you did the grind.
As such you would be clueless as to why people continue to play the game. See, they are playing a game. You were in a race, with what no one knows, but obviously you did not come to play. First and foremost, you cannot win at a MMORPG, so where is the rush?
Apparently the MMORPG crowd you hang with is a minority. Then again people with your mindset normally are. Do you jump from game to game? If you only spent a month in WOW I can't see how you spend more in any other.
Yeah this borders on bashing but if I had a PENNY for everyone who claims WOW is dieing or that everyone they know doesn't play it I would be so rich it would be silly.
Oooh, there is one big market waiting for this. Who cares about advertising, visibility is even more important. Dayling running can be made safer with clothing that shifts geometric patterns and shifting colors. Ads on the clothing could be used to reduce the price so people actually wear it... and if not ads then perhaps some customizable imagery would be good to.
Still, the safety aspects are hard to ignore with stuff like this. If the power use is low enough then self lighting (pulsing/blinking) emergency gear would be another great application (think of aircraft seats, lifevests, etc). Get lost in the woods then at night a tent or even your jacket if woven with this material could be set to flash etc.
The people trying to create this thing are separated from the very people they claim they are doing it for. Until critical mass is reached its pointless to worry about an African wiki coming into being. When it is necessary it will happen. Just because a bunch of people who "know better" than the natives doesn't make it right.
// the wiki guys // but damn if doesn't sound like a bunch of elites trying to bring religon to the savages all over again.
A wiki is a great idea but it also eats a lot of leisure time. Many in those nations don't have the luxury of that time let alone the means to even access it.
I know its not what they want
Feed them, clothe them, and give them the means to do so themselves. The rest will tend to itself. We've come a long way in 200 years but we were trying as a whole, Africa has been fractured for so long it will take them hopefully less than half the time to do the same, they just have to see it as a goal. First needed is freeing the people from the dictatorships that keep their societies backwards.