This behavior as described by the researcher does not get XP for the player. It does not get drops for the player, either. It simply wastes the opponent's time. Note also that there are two different behaviors described. One, a pattern of teleporting foes into the 'safe zone guards' was later defined as griefing by the developers, and punishable by pretty much the same punishment as threatening people. The other is a matter of waiting till someone is badly hurt, fighting someone else, and picking them off by teleporting them directly into a boss. This is completely legal, it simply imposes an XP penalty on the person killed. It is also, of course, viewed as 'cheap.'
I suspect strongly that our friend did the 'teleport into guard' trick until the day it was declared griefing, then switched to a new tactic, just to cause the maximum social annoyance.
I have seen this behavior in real life, as well. It is the person who drives in the left lane at ten under the limit, on a road where the convention is twenty over. Much like the behavior described in the game, it is technically legal, unless, of course, the cops decide the driver is intentionally blocking the road.
In this case, I suspect he is both intentionally blocking the road _and_ driving with a hat on, barely able to see over the windshield, if he truly does not understand why his behavior was deemed frustrating.
To put it another way, most of us grew out of this behavior when we were six. It's passive-aggressive, and spiritually the same as "I'm not touching you. I'm not touching you. I'm not touching you."
His survival _after_ this behavior might be an indication of skill... but I doubt he survived for long, simply taking advantage of the lack of death penalty, and various stealth powers to return to play after being killed.
As far as playing by the 'rules', I should note that it has become harder and harder to perform his tactics, due to behavior like this. Why? Because, while the game world may allow it, it was only allowed because the developers didn't actually believe someone would behave like this, to no personal gain and great social cost. As such, they have added equipment, power sets, potions, and direct power changes to make it harder to perform.
Dead serious question here. I don't have a Blu-Ray player yet. Under what circumstances do they need to be hooked to the internet? Do you have to hook them up when you're doing initial setup? Do you have to hook them up when you want to play any DVD? Do you have to hook them up when you want to play a disc with BD-Live content? What would happen if you just didn't have it hooked to the net and tried to play this?
It still will be using SecuROM, which blows out your DVD drive, to the point of not letting you play the darn game if you have a DVD-writer that falls under certain conditions.
The problem is not authentication and so on. The problem is the DRM software is inherently broken.
Also, the DRM in Spore actually breaks the game: you can only have one Spore account per copy of the game. So your little brother can't have his own account, contrary to what it says in the manual. This is solely an adaptation because of the DRM.
No sodding SecuROM. No breaking our computers to play your games.
Baker Street, Baker Street. Are you quite sure? Remember, I am posting from a _former_ colony, which means that, as per the Pershing subset, we follow the limited previous rules rather than the more modern reconciliation. I believe Bond is legitimate under that, but for global unity, I will not argue the point. On the other hand, it does open the potential for this.
That's a darn good question. I keep meaning to map the windows key to the dropdown thing in Gnome, but I never remember long enough to look it up. It would be handy to try to map the three or four keyboard I could be using onto it.
You know, this may be the most pure Wired article I've read in a long time. Reminds me of the magazine's layout when it first came out. Complete bull, unreadable, unstructure, but slick.
As I understand it, SecuROM makes you unable to delete 16 bit executables on your hard drive. Further, I'm guessing the call-in is some kind of hidden service on your computer....
And this is why we can't have nice things. This is why PC games are dying. I was going to buy Spore. Now, I can't. I can't buy the demo, I can't buy any of it. Because I am not putting an infection vector or rootkit on my system.
The problem here is that you can't just build meat. You need a support system for the meat, the heart, kidneys, and so on, to transfer the blood through the meat. The question is, what's the most ideal form to build it in? It's not just 'a vat of meat', you're going to need to build the rest of the animal somewhere.
Of course, you could go for artificial organs and try to grow real meat on it, whereupon the question is, how big can you build it... and remember, it does need exercise somehow.
Generally, there are two devices I need. Firstly, is a portable workstation. Good for taking notes, light coding, and capable of performing any PC task, even if slightly slowly. I don't mind a little extra weight on this, and I want a good screen and a good keyboard. It has to be comfortable to work on. To be honest, it doesn't even need a working battery.
Secondly, is a portable surfing device. If it can play music, open PDFs, and read ebooks, so much the better. Right now, I'm using my Nintendo DS for this. It does two of the above, and also makes a good travel alarm clock. In the future, I'm looking to switch to an iPod Touch style device. It can be slightly uncomfortable to work with, and slow to react, as long as it is rugged and portable, and has good battery life.
Well, if the proposal suggests the probability of rewriting everything in non-open programs, the amount of waste, number of people who will need to be fired and new hires, or the retraining required is considered... not such a good shareholder value.
Loved Elantris, by the way. Best way I've been able to describe it without spoiling it is an unholy fusion of Thomas Covenant and Wheel of Time and Exalted, only actually a love story between two cultures. With an ending. Neal Stephenson of fantasy, only with an ending: Familiar enough tropes, used in unfamiliar ways that make you think.
I've found this lovely project. It's called Wine-Doors, and it's a Package Manager for Windows programs under Linux. Like Apt-Get. Seems to work pretty well, too. http://www.wine-doors.org/wordpress/?page_id=5
Has anyone ever managed to get Office 2003 fully working under WINE yet? I spent a week trying once. Never got it right. Probably something to do with the fact that it doesn't have the ability to run as a Win98 program.
Look how much the man speaks, compared to how little the interviewer speaks. There are no slips in this interview, and there are a very large amount of omissions. Of course, all the omissions are of things that would be blatantly illegal, and we do know some of them are occurring. (Surveillance of all American phone calls at the switch level, for example. The taps are in, even if unused.) It only makes me exceptionally curious as to what he's hiding, because I certainly get the impression he's hiding something.
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This behavior as described by the researcher does not get XP for the player. It does not get drops for the player, either. It simply wastes the opponent's time.
Note also that there are two different behaviors described. One, a pattern of teleporting foes into the 'safe zone guards' was later defined as griefing by the developers, and punishable by pretty much the same punishment as threatening people. The other is a matter of waiting till someone is badly hurt, fighting someone else, and picking them off by teleporting them directly into a boss. This is completely legal, it simply imposes an XP penalty on the person killed. It is also, of course, viewed as 'cheap.'
I suspect strongly that our friend did the 'teleport into guard' trick until the day it was declared griefing, then switched to a new tactic, just to cause the maximum social annoyance.
I have seen this behavior in real life, as well. It is the person who drives in the left lane at ten under the limit, on a road where the convention is twenty over. Much like the behavior described in the game, it is technically legal, unless, of course, the cops decide the driver is intentionally blocking the road.
In this case, I suspect he is both intentionally blocking the road _and_ driving with a hat on, barely able to see over the windshield, if he truly does not understand why his behavior was deemed frustrating.
To put it another way, most of us grew out of this behavior when we were six. It's passive-aggressive, and spiritually the same as "I'm not touching you. I'm not touching you. I'm not touching you."
His survival _after_ this behavior might be an indication of skill... but I doubt he survived for long, simply taking advantage of the lack of death penalty, and various stealth powers to return to play after being killed.
As far as playing by the 'rules', I should note that it has become harder and harder to perform his tactics, due to behavior like this. Why? Because, while the game world may allow it, it was only allowed because the developers didn't actually believe someone would behave like this, to no personal gain and great social cost. As such, they have added equipment, power sets, potions, and direct power changes to make it harder to perform.
Dead serious question here. I don't have a Blu-Ray player yet. Under what circumstances do they need to be hooked to the internet? Do you have to hook them up when you're doing initial setup? Do you have to hook them up when you want to play any DVD? Do you have to hook them up when you want to play a disc with BD-Live content? What would happen if you just didn't have it hooked to the net and tried to play this?
It still will be using SecuROM, which blows out your DVD drive, to the point of not letting you play the darn game if you have a DVD-writer that falls under certain conditions.
The problem is not authentication and so on. The problem is the DRM software is inherently broken.
Also, the DRM in Spore actually breaks the game: you can only have one Spore account per copy of the game. So your little brother can't have his own account, contrary to what it says in the manual. This is solely an adaptation because of the DRM.
No sodding SecuROM. No breaking our computers to play your games.
Baker Street, Baker Street. Are you quite sure? Remember, I am posting from a _former_ colony, which means that, as per the Pershing subset, we follow the limited previous rules rather than the more modern reconciliation. I believe Bond is legitimate under that, but for global unity, I will not argue the point. On the other hand, it does open the potential for this.
Paddington.
Well, I suppose I'll start, then.
Bond Street.
Win + Break opens System Properties. Handy, sometimes.
That's a darn good question. I keep meaning to map the windows key to the dropdown thing in Gnome, but I never remember long enough to look it up. It would be handy to try to map the three or four keyboard I could be using onto it.
You know, this may be the most pure Wired article I've read in a long time. Reminds me of the magazine's layout when it first came out. Complete bull, unreadable, unstructure, but slick.
So, if one were to file a FCC complaint for failure to provide service, what would it look like?
I was in error: The check-in is part of the executable, and it is _in the first ten days_, not _every ten days_ as I have heard the rumor.
As I understand it, SecuROM makes you unable to delete 16 bit executables on your hard drive. Further, I'm guessing the call-in is some kind of hidden service on your computer. ...
And this is why we can't have nice things. This is why PC games are dying. I was going to buy Spore. Now, I can't. I can't buy the demo, I can't buy any of it. Because I am not putting an infection vector or rootkit on my system.
The problem here is that you can't just build meat. You need a support system for the meat, the heart, kidneys, and so on, to transfer the blood through the meat. The question is, what's the most ideal form to build it in? It's not just 'a vat of meat', you're going to need to build the rest of the animal somewhere.
Of course, you could go for artificial organs and try to grow real meat on it, whereupon the question is, how big can you build it... and remember, it does need exercise somehow.
Generally, there are two devices I need. Firstly, is a portable workstation. Good for taking notes, light coding, and capable of performing any PC task, even if slightly slowly. I don't mind a little extra weight on this, and I want a good screen and a good keyboard. It has to be comfortable to work on. To be honest, it doesn't even need a working battery.
Secondly, is a portable surfing device. If it can play music, open PDFs, and read ebooks, so much the better. Right now, I'm using my Nintendo DS for this. It does two of the above, and also makes a good travel alarm clock. In the future, I'm looking to switch to an iPod Touch style device. It can be slightly uncomfortable to work with, and slow to react, as long as it is rugged and portable, and has good battery life.
Well, if the proposal suggests the probability of rewriting everything in non-open programs, the amount of waste, number of people who will need to be fired and new hires, or the retraining required is considered... not such a good shareholder value.
Loved Elantris, by the way. Best way I've been able to describe it without spoiling it is an unholy fusion of Thomas Covenant and Wheel of Time and Exalted, only actually a love story between two cultures. With an ending. Neal Stephenson of fantasy, only with an ending: Familiar enough tropes, used in unfamiliar ways that make you think.
Pretty good stuff.
I've found this lovely project. It's called Wine-Doors, and it's a Package Manager for Windows programs under Linux. Like Apt-Get.
Seems to work pretty well, too.
http://www.wine-doors.org/wordpress/?page_id=5
Yes, but that's the closed DS/Lite you're comparing it to. And I am a bit sad they removed the power eject from the Slim. No more ninja stars!
They did fix the square button, I hear.
How much was Bioshock's advertising campaign?
How much advertising did they get?
Has anyone ever managed to get Office 2003 fully working under WINE yet? I spent a week trying once. Never got it right. Probably something to do with the fact that it doesn't have the ability to run as a Win98 program.
Look how much the man speaks, compared to how little the interviewer speaks. There are no slips in this interview, and there are a very large amount of omissions. Of course, all the omissions are of things that would be blatantly illegal, and we do know some of them are occurring. (Surveillance of all American phone calls at the switch level, for example. The taps are in, even if unused.) It only makes me exceptionally curious as to what he's hiding, because I certainly get the impression he's hiding something.
Really good way to decrease the reputation of Cisco as rock solid gear. Linksys always gets funky in not so good ways.
Hm. Well, if the _new_ one is coming out, why bother buying the old one, right? New one will be way better.
It's not like Apple could ever compete with a wireless iPod.
The first thing I do is crack my diet soda, and take a long pull.
The second thing I do is check the backup tapes.
After that, I see if the phone system is functional.
Finally, I check the emergency log.
Then, slashdot, groklaw.
You are a god among men. A Stalin poster-styled towering figure.
Has anyone seen ANY of these in MAME? My emigre' co-worker just blew his lid when he saw them. He hasn't seen these in twenty years.