The critical question: Does it work? To wit, does it meet the goals of the owners?
More people just need to realize that when they have a tightly-knit group of people on a messageboard controlled by someone else, that they should have an exit strategy if the owner does something to shut the board down. I've seen it happen, or almost happen, a number of times before.
On one About forum, plans started forming as soon as rumors flew. On the eMusic forums, it was a suprise, but people hijacked the List system to announce that a member had made a new forum elsewhere (that actually became a great site in and of itself).
Of course, I shouldn't preach, I have all kinds of things out on the Web that I should be backing up lest they go Gracenote. It's still good advice, though.
Wrong type of RPG, if I'm reading Runescape correctly. P&P RPGs are inherently social.
(Although, has anyone noticed that with some hardcore players it can be annoyingly antisocial, in that they're so in-character, you end up never actually talking with the friends you're with, but only to their characters. Maybe I'm not as heavy-duty a gamer, but I like a good mix of in-char and out-of-char during a game... otherwise it ends up as impersonal as an online RPG.)
That all may or may not be true. But does the resume actually suck?
Personally I'd rather be told by someone that my resume sucks, if it does. There's no point in having your ego inflated by irrelevant people if the people who matter are tossing the thing behind your back.
Now, I don't know if the resume sucks... I didn't look, and I probably wouldn't be a good judge of it, since my criteria for a resume is a bit different from a lot of people's.
Oh, and for extra fun, apply: I don't mean to lauch on you, but come on, it's a shitty world out there without we the tech community being shitty to each other. to... And, you might consider for a moment the fact you got and the reason you got three (wow!) job offers has a lot more to do... (and the rest of the paragraph) and... (I don't even have to look at this guy's resume to know you're off base and out of line....)
Maybe I'm not up-to-date (to be honest, I don't really care about OOo), but I think they could go far having a decent (read: installable by idiots) MacOSX port.
Well, the GPL does have some enforcements, in that it forces developers "buying into" the GPL by adding and distributing code to distribute theirs under GPL.
I'd say that protecting kids "from" RPGs in the same vein as TV, movies, etc., is not just unnecessary, it's downright counterproductive. RPG's even one-up books as a good "intellectual activity".
Not only are gamers learning to read well and use their imagination, they're learning to create their own worlds and problem-solve intellectually against active puzzles. Although I don't know for sure if it's cause, effect, or irrelevant, but the group of long-time gamers I hang out with is leaps and bounds more interesting, witty, and inventive than the general mass of idiotry I know outside. As an intellectual activity for all ages (I say, trying to head off the "Aren't you too old for that?" age.), P&P RPGing is a great pastime....
You mentioned D&Ding with your kids, and I remember a conversation with a friend I had a while ago, musing that a greater mass of gamers were coming of child-rearing age, and what great stories we'll have to tell our children. "You know, I threw a car at a guy in this parking lot one time. Right over there. He was trying to mind-blast me, but I ducked out of the way and used my Forces to lift the car, and..." (I'm a real-setting White Wolf fan.)
I was always crap with NPCs. I'm just better at pre-thinking than at off-the-cuff repartee. Intricate, realistic world-building, reality-management, and deep design was always my forté. I can imagine and work in a room with every intricate detail mapped out, but my NPCs end up coming out stereotypical or unfleshed.
I've been wanting to get into a dual-GM situation with someone who's good at NPCs. (Unfortunately, new night work means that I don't play much at all anymore.) Have you (or anyone) tried a game like this?
For now, I'm keeping myself busy working on a new game and mechanic, which I find myself to be more suited to.
On the other hand, I've played with some GMs that I've had to argue with, because their challenges or "natural" reactions to events were completely illogical.
Granted, I've done the same thing as a GM, although if I want to lead a story, I'll usually construct a "real" trap (keep them in an inviolable holding cell) as opposed to an "illogical" trap (No, you can't break down that balsa-wood door, because... uh... it's not the way out that I wanted.)
I'm not saying you're one type of GM or another... in fact, I'm not sure what my point was with this post. I suppose I'll stop now.
The fact that there are still people out there who use... nee, insist on QuarkXPress shows how stubborn and change-resistant the design field (which is a major Apple customer) is. Add to that the fact that PDF is a useful and rather open standard, and I really don't think Microsoft has a chance of domination here. If anything, it'll just become another Microsoft Publisher: used by office drones, generally hated, but tolerated.
You lose a lot of the humor element there, though. Granted, it's dumb not to know when you're looking at your own machine, but it's not to the same absurd level of dumbassness as breaking into 127.0.0.1
An even better solution is to stop standing in the way of advances in technology on the basis of pure greed.
So, the sharing networks shouldn't stand in the way of advances in hash-spoofing technology, simply because of sharers' pure greed in copyrighted content without licensing it.
Well, although I would agree about the sharers' greed, I see it as more of a straight-up battle of technical ingenuity, which, IMO, is at least superior to the oppressive legal stomping. As long as the **AA keeps only misrepresents with the permission of the trademark holders, more power to 'em.
Note the [nuyd.net] URL and the nyuddy slowness. You've got to add.nyud.net:8090 to the DOMAIN NAME part of the URL, otherwise it's just adding.nyud.net to either the path or the query string on the original server.
Along those lines, it's also more convincing because it's a real person who is putting their personal credibility on the line on a board like this, as opposed to a blurb written by someone you'll never meet, much less be able to bark out should it be fake.
Remote-control sounds fine, but automatically? Do we have software capable of reliably distingushing between a civilian and an enemy combatant (at least as well as a human soldier can, anyway...)?
Ever read Second Variety (Philip K. Dick)? Target anything that moves and doesn't have a valid RFID signature.
OT: What was the name of that godawful movie they made out of that?
Free Software (or even free software) is tangental to the success of Amazon or Google. It's free... universally available.
It's not so much a silver platter as a city park drinking fountain. It was put there for everyone's use, and everyone can use it. Some people are better or more inventive in using it, and they comparitively profit. Others, who have the same chance, fail to.
Sounds like the whole "Must have the (C)-mark to be copyrighted" issue of US copyright prior to the [1960's, I think]. You just have to remember to cross your eyes and dot your tees.
well not really the regions on DVDs are so some poorer regions can get cheaper DVDs and not cut into the profits of places where a higher price is ok. It helps prevent a situtation like windows where it is charged similiar prices everywhere and that leads to more priacy
The product can be shipped, even imported and exported. Deal with it (in the product, not the courtroom) or get out.
Although, for the most part, I agree with how the DVDCCA worked region encoding. They internally protected the region-control mechanism and CSS by way of legitimate patent and trade-secret control with strict licensing to manufacturers. However, that contraption failed, and illegitimate legal bandages were applied to try and stop the bleeding.
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The critical question: Does it work? To wit, does it meet the goals of the owners?
More people just need to realize that when they have a tightly-knit group of people on a messageboard controlled by someone else, that they should have an exit strategy if the owner does something to shut the board down. I've seen it happen, or almost happen, a number of times before.
On one About forum, plans started forming as soon as rumors flew. On the eMusic forums, it was a suprise, but people hijacked the List system to announce that a member had made a new forum elsewhere (that actually became a great site in and of itself).
Of course, I shouldn't preach, I have all kinds of things out on the Web that I should be backing up lest they go Gracenote. It's still good advice, though.
Right, but your little ISP business is the business.
If forums are the business, and good forums are the added value, then you (might be able to) charge for the forums.
Wrong type of RPG, if I'm reading Runescape correctly. P&P RPGs are inherently social.
(Although, has anyone noticed that with some hardcore players it can be annoyingly antisocial, in that they're so in-character, you end up never actually talking with the friends you're with, but only to their characters. Maybe I'm not as heavy-duty a gamer, but I like a good mix of in-char and out-of-char during a game... otherwise it ends up as impersonal as an online RPG.)
Or save that, too and just use PayPal or a credit card.
That all may or may not be true. But does the resume actually suck?
Personally I'd rather be told by someone that my resume sucks, if it does. There's no point in having your ego inflated by irrelevant people if the people who matter are tossing the thing behind your back.
Now, I don't know if the resume sucks... I didn't look, and I probably wouldn't be a good judge of it, since my criteria for a resume is a bit different from a lot of people's.
(For fair play and shameless pluggin', my own resume is at http://www.voterudy.org/.)
Oh, and for extra fun, apply:
I don't mean to lauch on you, but come on, it's a shitty world out there without we the tech community being shitty to each other.
to...
And, you might consider for a moment the fact you got and the reason you got three (wow!) job offers has a lot more to do... (and the rest of the paragraph)
and...
(I don't even have to look at this guy's resume to know you're off base and out of line....)
After all, Capitalism is the best, right?
Yep. People will buy elsewhere when a seller does something dumb like this.
Maybe I'm not up-to-date (to be honest, I don't really care about OOo), but I think they could go far having a decent (read: installable by idiots) MacOSX port.
Well, the GPL does have some enforcements, in that it forces developers "buying into" the GPL by adding and distributing code to distribute theirs under GPL.
You're new here, are'n...
Oh, never mind.
I'd say that protecting kids "from" RPGs in the same vein as TV, movies, etc., is not just unnecessary, it's downright counterproductive. RPG's even one-up books as a good "intellectual activity".
...
Not only are gamers learning to read well and use their imagination, they're learning to create their own worlds and problem-solve intellectually against active puzzles. Although I don't know for sure if it's cause, effect, or irrelevant, but the group of long-time gamers I hang out with is leaps and bounds more interesting, witty, and inventive than the general mass of idiotry I know outside. As an intellectual activity for all ages (I say, trying to head off the "Aren't you too old for that?" age.), P&P RPGing is a great pastime.
You mentioned D&Ding with your kids, and I remember a conversation with a friend I had a while ago, musing that a greater mass of gamers were coming of child-rearing age, and what great stories we'll have to tell our children. "You know, I threw a car at a guy in this parking lot one time. Right over there. He was trying to mind-blast me, but I ducked out of the way and used my Forces to lift the car, and..." (I'm a real-setting White Wolf fan.)
I was always crap with NPCs. I'm just better at pre-thinking than at off-the-cuff repartee. Intricate, realistic world-building, reality-management, and deep design was always my forté. I can imagine and work in a room with every intricate detail mapped out, but my NPCs end up coming out stereotypical or unfleshed.
I've been wanting to get into a dual-GM situation with someone who's good at NPCs. (Unfortunately, new night work means that I don't play much at all anymore.) Have you (or anyone) tried a game like this?
For now, I'm keeping myself busy working on a new game and mechanic, which I find myself to be more suited to.
On the other hand, I've played with some GMs that I've had to argue with, because their challenges or "natural" reactions to events were completely illogical.
Granted, I've done the same thing as a GM, although if I want to lead a story, I'll usually construct a "real" trap (keep them in an inviolable holding cell) as opposed to an "illogical" trap (No, you can't break down that balsa-wood door, because... uh... it's not the way out that I wanted.)
I'm not saying you're one type of GM or another... in fact, I'm not sure what my point was with this post. I suppose I'll stop now.
I've always heard that your State Attorney General's office is a good place to go, if you live in a State.
Bull.
The fact that there are still people out there who use... nee, insist on QuarkXPress shows how stubborn and change-resistant the design field (which is a major Apple customer) is. Add to that the fact that PDF is a useful and rather open standard, and I really don't think Microsoft has a chance of domination here. If anything, it'll just become another Microsoft Publisher: used by office drones, generally hated, but tolerated.
You lose a lot of the humor element there, though. Granted, it's dumb not to know when you're looking at your own machine, but it's not to the same absurd level of dumbassness as breaking into 127.0.0.1
In-wall adaption at the plug might be a decent solution.
An even better solution is to stop standing in the way of advances in technology on the basis of pure greed.
So, the sharing networks shouldn't stand in the way of advances in hash-spoofing technology, simply because of sharers' pure greed in copyrighted content without licensing it.
Well, although I would agree about the sharers' greed, I see it as more of a straight-up battle of technical ingenuity, which, IMO, is at least superior to the oppressive legal stomping. As long as the **AA keeps only misrepresents with the permission of the trademark holders, more power to 'em.
Someone needs to learn to make a Coral Cache link...
p id=12&cs=13&cid=148
p id=12&cs=13&cid=150
p id=12&cs=13&cid=151
.nyud.net:8090 to the DOMAIN NAME part of the URL, otherwise it's just adding .nyud.net to either the path or the query string on the original server.
P1: http://www.phwcomics.com.nyud.net:8090/index.php?
P2: http://www.phwcomics.com.nyud.net:8090/index.php?
P3: http://www.phwcomics.com.nyud.net:8090/index.php?
Note the [nuyd.net] URL and the nyuddy slowness. You've got to add
The only caveat about using it as a router would be a quite-a-bit-higher power consumption.
Along those lines, it's also more convincing because it's a real person who is putting their personal credibility on the line on a board like this, as opposed to a blurb written by someone you'll never meet, much less be able to bark out should it be fake.
I don't care if you believe The Book of Mormon is true or not, how can you respect a man who pulls a stunt like that?
A greater belief in copyright expiration and the public domain than in the sanctity of religion?
Remote-control sounds fine, but automatically? Do we have software capable of reliably distingushing between a civilian and an enemy combatant (at least as well as a human soldier can, anyway...)?
Ever read Second Variety (Philip K. Dick)? Target anything that moves and doesn't have a valid RFID signature.
OT: What was the name of that godawful movie they made out of that?
Free Software (or even free software) is tangental to the success of Amazon or Google. It's free... universally available.
It's not so much a silver platter as a city park drinking fountain. It was put there for everyone's use, and everyone can use it. Some people are better or more inventive in using it, and they comparitively profit. Others, who have the same chance, fail to.
Sounds like the whole "Must have the (C)-mark to be copyrighted" issue of US copyright prior to the [1960's, I think]. You just have to remember to cross your eyes and dot your tees.
well not really the regions on DVDs are so some poorer regions can get cheaper DVDs and not cut into the profits of places where a higher price is ok. It helps prevent a situtation like windows where it is charged similiar prices everywhere and that leads to more priacy
The product can be shipped, even imported and exported. Deal with it (in the product, not the courtroom) or get out.
Although, for the most part, I agree with how the DVDCCA worked region encoding. They internally protected the region-control mechanism and CSS by way of legitimate patent and trade-secret control with strict licensing to manufacturers. However, that contraption failed, and illegitimate legal bandages were applied to try and stop the bleeding.