Blizzard is notorious for killing "powergamers". Unfortunately, these people are what make MMORPGs fun. You get rid of the powergamer, and you get rid of the idea that someone can make a name for themself in a virtual world. And, IMHO, making a name for yourself in a virtual world is what MMORPGs are all about.
The reason to play a game is to have fun. If beating people up is your idea of fun, please do it elsewhere. Me personally, I like getting together with a group of friends who are located around the world and doing something together, even if in the end all it means we are balancing a very complex spreadsheet of numbers.
Perhaps I'll close with a nice quote from someone else about making a name for oneself.
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear -
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.'
But the type of missions that you go on gets to be a bit of a treadmill (kill x y's, Stop x from destroying y before timer z runs out, Click x buttons before y timer runs out). And as you get into the higher levels the amount of time required to change the dynamic of the game (gain an ability or attack) grows.
Also in the end, the city setting was nothing more than pretty graphics. There was little interaction with the world, and the story line quests and arcs were nice, but the game got old after a while.
I got to around lvl 35 before I quit to play WOW. And the main reason I did this was that I wanted a change in the game dynamics. Had they introduced new concepts, or given me places to explore (the indoor maps were just tile based) I would have stayed around. But as it was, it had turned into a treadmill, more work than fun.
What you are supposed to learn in religion is to take at face value whatever is told to you by some authority (elders, books, voices with no apparent body who claim to be god (Which I'm not saying that they aren't god, but...))
Test everything. Hold on to the good. - 1 Thessalonians 5:21
As I'm sure some scientists have forgotten about their basic lessons, I'm sure there are some theologians who have also done so.
Can knowledge synthized? Can what you learn in Biology affect what you learn in history or sociology or business? Should it.
You argue that the knowledge of science and the knowledge of religion can't co-operate together. Can you provide me with the an argument as to why you think that is?
I wanted to read the article, not figure out how to watch the ad and then read the article, so I came back here, becuase I knew someone had copied the article over here.
I have an anual pass to Disnyland. Every time I goto the park they check the pass to see if I'm who I say I am (I look like the picture on the pass) and they log me into their database.
This is normal, and complete expected.
Every time I goto the theatre or a concert, they do the same thing.
Heck, every time I goto a forign country they ask for Identification.
What makes you expect a software company is any different?
No, you are being treated like a customer. I have an anual pass to Disnyland. Strange thing, every time I want to go into the part they check my pass and look and log me into their database.
Those bastards, who do they think I am, a criminal?
But only if they use the money on building and expanding our transportation system here in California. And if you have said device you no longer pay taxes on Gas.
This will push people to carpool and to use public transportation.
Well, another interesting point to note is that most of the money he has borrowed has been loaned to him by Bank of America with the Beatles Library to back the loan up. So give it enough time and BofA will have it. At which point they will sell it to the highest bidder to cover Michael's lifestyle.
Yeah, and most middle of the road Christians today think he is the same God that's still around, its just that he's saving up his pissed off attitude for one last go around before he brings it all to an end. Some of the more conservative Christians would call it delayed gratification on His part, and there is a bit of truth in that position.
5. This is a design problem and can be fixed with an increase in skill from the developer.
4. Ummm, CSS files are downloaded once on the first time to the site and then kept locally for the rest of your visit to the site. This reduces bandwidth, and reduces loadtime. So yes, this happens the first time you hit the page, but not any other times.
3. No they want to depreciate broken HTML. There is nothing wrong with HTML which follows the standards. And CSS is simple, very simple.
2. Hardly anyone uses personal stylesheets. There are two reasons for that. No standards on class and ID namespace. Browser implementation of this is buried behind a ton of menus. No one knows about this as a feature.
1. Your problem is with the validation buttons, not the fact that the page is validated.
This is actually a problem browser development. As a browser developer you need to second guess every idiot out there and try to make sense of what they ment when they borked their HTML.
Way back in the day there was a battle between Netscape and Microsoft, and Microsoft decided to start supporting a more lax standard. This made it easier to develop to their standard becuase it wasn't as picky.
Your attitude of the webserver only serving up webpages to be viewed in a browser is quickly being replaced with a more service oriented model which says that you never know what the client browser is going to be. With this new model there is a renewed need for standards because not every cell phone or pda can be expected to interpert borked HTML correctly. Also this doesn't even take into account that the output from a webrowser that needs to be read by things other than other browsers.
The prime examle of this last case is search engines. Now granted broken HTML doesn't effect your placement alot, but broken output which doesn't follow a standard does affect another computer program and application which is expecting a certain format. I can't write a computer program if I'm not certain on the input, and I (and the company I work for) doesn't have the same resources that Micrsoft and Netscape had to deal with trying to read the other developers mind and second guess what he ment by his borked output. (ask anyone who has done work in the web application/web services fields on how annoying shifting standards can be)
I guess, I have a different attitude about it. Once I learned how to do most of the things I needed to do without tables, I really didn't want to go back. So I kept pushing through it all and learned everything I could.
I understand that tables are not bad, but that's not the point. If you follow the patterns of developing in only CSS, you end up solving a bunch of other problems you face later down the line in the development and maintence lifecycles (accessifying the site, turning pages into CMS templates, Search Engine Optimization, and importing static content into databases to name a couple I've had to confront).
Also you should see the maintence teams faces light up when they see a 100% CSSed site. Maintence and updates become a breeze.
I guess in the end, I've not seen a need to go back to allowing tables for layouts. The only reason I would say that you shouldn't make a hard rule on NO Tables is that on many sites you do not control the source of all the content (CMS, Portlets, Includes, etc...) and because maybe somewhere somplace out there there is probably something which is impossible to do in pure CSS. But in the mean time I think everyone should learn this skill, it's worth it. (It cut our bandwidth by ~%50 which justified the costs of learning the skill and implementation.)
Yes, i'm sure there are some simple sites that can be pulled off with CSS and look pretty much the same but honestly, when you reduce your site to this level, they ALLL look alike:
Ummm... you might be suprised at the varity that is allowed when you know what you are doing with CSS. I would have to say that the sites at CSSZenGarden look quite different. I could point out other examples, but I'll promote a bit of myself, just click on my URL and check out the code for both the front page and the Forums. Both use tables only on imported content from outside sources. The rest is full CSS.
And why buy a book when you can read the W3C recommendations/specifications for HTML/XHTML and CSS that are (imo) very understandable and easy to read?
Becuase many times the standards do not tell you elegant solutions which people have used in the past.
Kinda like the difference between English class and Creative Writing classes
Who owns your thoughts? I certainly hope I do, and that I have full rights to them, and who knows them. I hope they are very protected by the law.
Do you really want the government to say that your thoughts MUST be shared with someone else? That sounds almost like a form of Mind control/Mind reading.
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The reason to play a game is to have fun. If beating people up is your idea of fun, please do it elsewhere. Me personally, I like getting together with a group of friends who are located around the world and doing something together, even if in the end all it means we are balancing a very complex spreadsheet of numbers.
Perhaps I'll close with a nice quote from someone else about making a name for oneself.
But the type of missions that you go on gets to be a bit of a treadmill (kill x y's, Stop x from destroying y before timer z runs out, Click x buttons before y timer runs out). And as you get into the higher levels the amount of time required to change the dynamic of the game (gain an ability or attack) grows.
Also in the end, the city setting was nothing more than pretty graphics. There was little interaction with the world, and the story line quests and arcs were nice, but the game got old after a while.
I got to around lvl 35 before I quit to play WOW. And the main reason I did this was that I wanted a change in the game dynamics. Had they introduced new concepts, or given me places to explore (the indoor maps were just tile based) I would have stayed around. But as it was, it had turned into a treadmill, more work than fun.
Ted Tschopp
This isn't a bad idea. Advertise your software as secure already. Apple should try this approach with Tiger.
Test everything. Hold on to the good. - 1 Thessalonians 5:21
As I'm sure some scientists have forgotten about their basic lessons, I'm sure there are some theologians who have also done so.
Ted
Can knowledge synthized? Can what you learn in Biology affect what you learn in history or sociology or business? Should it.
You argue that the knowledge of science and the knowledge of religion can't co-operate together. Can you provide me with the an argument as to why you think that is?
I wanted to read the article, not figure out how to watch the ad and then read the article, so I came back here, becuase I knew someone had copied the article over here.
You play the game in offline mode? And never worry again about EA or some other company.
And the ELUA on the HL2 says you don't own it either, you are using it.
No, you are being treated like a customer.
I have an anual pass to Disnyland. Every time I goto the park they check the pass to see if I'm who I say I am (I look like the picture on the pass) and they log me into their database.
This is normal, and complete expected.
Every time I goto the theatre or a concert, they do the same thing.
Heck, every time I goto a forign country they ask for Identification.
What makes you expect a software company is any different?
Ted Tschopp
No, you are being treated like a customer. I have an anual pass to Disnyland. Strange thing, every time I want to go into the part they check my pass and look and log me into their database.
Those bastards, who do they think I am, a criminal?
Ted Tschopp
But only if they use the money on building and expanding our transportation system here in California. And if you have said device you no longer pay taxes on Gas.
This will push people to carpool and to use public transportation.
Not a too horrible thing at all.
Here is something strange: Search for Tolkien (a search that is close to my heart).
Why is this result coming up as second?
I can't figure that one out, any ideas. Other than Its Broke
Well, another interesting point to note is that most of the money he has borrowed has been loaned to him by Bank of America with the Beatles Library to back the loan up. So give it enough time and BofA will have it. At which point they will sell it to the highest bidder to cover Michael's lifestyle.
Yeah, and most middle of the road Christians today think he is the same God that's still around, its just that he's saving up his pissed off attitude for one last go around before he brings it all to an end. Some of the more conservative Christians would call it delayed gratification on His part, and there is a bit of truth in that position.
Ted Tschopp
YES,
It would allow me to use Windows and OSX on the same machine with a dual boot.
Ted Tschopp
5. This is a design problem and can be fixed with an increase in skill from the developer.
4. Ummm, CSS files are downloaded once on the first time to the site and then kept locally for the rest of your visit to the site. This reduces bandwidth, and reduces loadtime. So yes, this happens the first time you hit the page, but not any other times.
3. No they want to depreciate broken HTML. There is nothing wrong with HTML which follows the standards. And CSS is simple, very simple.
2. Hardly anyone uses personal stylesheets. There are two reasons for that. No standards on class and ID namespace. Browser implementation of this is buried behind a ton of menus. No one knows about this as a feature.
1. Your problem is with the validation buttons, not the fact that the page is validated.
This is actually a problem browser development. As a browser developer you need to second guess every idiot out there and try to make sense of what they ment when they borked their HTML.
Way back in the day there was a battle between Netscape and Microsoft, and Microsoft decided to start supporting a more lax standard. This made it easier to develop to their standard becuase it wasn't as picky.
Your attitude of the webserver only serving up webpages to be viewed in a browser is quickly being replaced with a more service oriented model which says that you never know what the client browser is going to be. With this new model there is a renewed need for standards because not every cell phone or pda can be expected to interpert borked HTML correctly. Also this doesn't even take into account that the output from a webrowser that needs to be read by things other than other browsers.
The prime examle of this last case is search engines. Now granted broken HTML doesn't effect your placement alot, but broken output which doesn't follow a standard does affect another computer program and application which is expecting a certain format. I can't write a computer program if I'm not certain on the input, and I (and the company I work for) doesn't have the same resources that Micrsoft and Netscape had to deal with trying to read the other developers mind and second guess what he ment by his borked output. (ask anyone who has done work in the web application/web services fields on how annoying shifting standards can be)
I guess, I have a different attitude about it. Once I learned how to do most of the things I needed to do without tables, I really didn't want to go back. So I kept pushing through it all and learned everything I could.
I understand that tables are not bad, but that's not the point. If you follow the patterns of developing in only CSS, you end up solving a bunch of other problems you face later down the line in the development and maintence lifecycles (accessifying the site, turning pages into CMS templates, Search Engine Optimization, and importing static content into databases to name a couple I've had to confront).
Also you should see the maintence teams faces light up when they see a 100% CSSed site. Maintence and updates become a breeze.
I guess in the end, I've not seen a need to go back to allowing tables for layouts. The only reason I would say that you shouldn't make a hard rule on NO Tables is that on many sites you do not control the source of all the content (CMS, Portlets, Includes, etc...) and because maybe somewhere somplace out there there is probably something which is impossible to do in pure CSS. But in the mean time I think everyone should learn this skill, it's worth it. (It cut our bandwidth by ~%50 which justified the costs of learning the skill and implementation.)
Ted Tschopp
Ummm... you might be suprised at the varity that is allowed when you know what you are doing with CSS. I would have to say that the sites at CSSZenGarden look quite different. I could point out other examples, but I'll promote a bit of myself, just click on my URL and check out the code for both the front page and the Forums. Both use tables only on imported content from outside sources. The rest is full CSS.
Ted Tschopp
Becuase many times the standards do not tell you elegant solutions which people have used in the past.
Kinda like the difference between English class and Creative Writing classes
Ted Tschopp
Ummmmm.... By definition, they are not customers becuase they haven't purchased anything yet.
How about creating an XML namespace for this format...
That could be fun....
Ted Tschopp
Wow, that came out more funny than I expected.
But my point still stands
I own my thoughts. You own your thoughts. And we both get to choose who owns which.
Ted Tschopp
Who owns your thoughts? I certainly hope I do, and that I have full rights to them, and who knows them. I hope they are very protected by the law.
Do you really want the government to say that your thoughts MUST be shared with someone else? That sounds almost like a form of Mind control/Mind reading.
Sorry, count me out.
Ted Tschopp
Can I tap out and have this all be over with? I hear that's one of the rules of Secret Law...
Ted