Agreed. Not sure what all the hate for 4ed comes from. If you don't like it, don't play it. Its not like the previous edition's books exploded at a certain date and were not usable.
This is like saying "First Person Shooters are cheap elsewhere. Why do people keep buying exorbitant amounts of money for, what is in principle, the same game released over 30 years ago (Wolfenstein 3d)"
Theres a large difference between old school D&D and 4th edition.
One wonders if this bill is only being asked because they know that Bill Fossett had that kind of money. If this was anyone else, such as myself, there is no way me or anyone I know could afford that kind of bill.
The moral of the story. Get GPS locators for your family, cause if any of them get lost you do not want to get stuck with a $600,000 bill for trying to find them.
If you took the time to read the Wikipedia article, you would see that Peter was the head of Wizards of the Coast. Your correct in so much as Richard designed Magic. However, this comes down to who do you give credit to the success of Magic; the person who designed it, or one of the people who were responsible for giving it to the public.
Ill agree with the Uldaman thing. At any one time on my server (Lightbringer) you will mysteriously see 10-20 Level 60 Rogues, many of which have interesting names, most of which are Chinese.
Farming tends to bring a lot of items into the mix, however the problem is that those of us who play the games and then try to sell the items we find, find that we aren't getting anything near what we probably should because others who find a bunch of those same items sell them for much cheaper. So yeah it keeps prices down however in some cases thats bad when the rest of us want money too.
I would assume your best guess would be to buy a multi-dvd recorder. The new Sony I believe does it, and I think they are only going for like $300. Try www.mwave.com or www.newegg.com.
I used to work (and still work within the same parent company) for a pretty large ISP in Southern California. I was unfortunate enough to be tasked with making a software CD. I decided to obviously put Windows software on the disks (Netscape, IE, Opera) and a couple newsreaders and email clients. I also threw on their Opera for Linux and a couple other things. The best answer to the question is: include software in which the tech staff is comfortable with. Obviously, if you include Joe's super Browser(TM) then your going to have problems with support. However, most calls are either OS related "Reboot" or email questions because the person doesnt type in their username correctly. On the flip side, you mine as well include as much software as you can get to fill the CD up because most of the time to make many copies it does not cost more depending on the space, just the volume. Hell, if you want you could always include some linux distro. Then support gets really fun.
I cant see how this would pass. I mean, isnt the government supposed to represent the people. I cant think of one person that would want this to pass unless they are part of the Entertainment industry and those whos money it directly effects. Of course, this is the US so you never know what will be done.
Oh goody, now software developers will be afraid to make good programs so now we will have a million half done unpublished programs. The only one that should be effected by this is Microsoft. Thats where the whole security problem is.
Lets hope if they do decide to bring them back, they decide also to make it illegal to hunt. Otherwise you mine as well just be making them to eat. And that would not be bringing back a species that was killed by us. That would just be bringing back the Tasmanian buffet.
Also what happened to Natural Selection? Even if they are a great species, lets not try to recreate Jurassic Park by bringing back things that are dead. I say leave nature alone and use that money towards saving us from falling into the dead species category.
Now the trick would be to get it so that when some of these games are ported to Windows, to have them able to play against eachother across the internet. That would be the real gem in the Xbox and online gaming. I wonder if this would be even possible due to the obviously differences in the controls and the games themselves, but it would still be worth a try to get it to work.
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Agreed. Not sure what all the hate for 4ed comes from. If you don't like it, don't play it. Its not like the previous edition's books exploded at a certain date and were not usable.
This is like saying "First Person Shooters are cheap elsewhere. Why do people keep buying exorbitant amounts of money for, what is in principle, the same game released over 30 years ago (Wolfenstein 3d)"
Theres a large difference between old school D&D and 4th edition.
One wonders if this bill is only being asked because they know that Bill Fossett had that kind of money. If this was anyone else, such as myself, there is no way me or anyone I know could afford that kind of bill.
The moral of the story. Get GPS locators for your family, cause if any of them get lost you do not want to get stuck with a $600,000 bill for trying to find them.
If you took the time to read the Wikipedia article, you would see that Peter was the head of Wizards of the Coast. Your correct in so much as Richard designed Magic. However, this comes down to who do you give credit to the success of Magic; the person who designed it, or one of the people who were responsible for giving it to the public.
Not sure if its chaos.. More like stream of thought.
Course my stream of thoughts can be chaotic so his might be too..
Ill agree with the Uldaman thing. At any one time on my server (Lightbringer) you will mysteriously see 10-20 Level 60 Rogues, many of which have interesting names, most of which are Chinese.
Farming tends to bring a lot of items into the mix, however the problem is that those of us who play the games and then try to sell the items we find, find that we aren't getting anything near what we probably should because others who find a bunch of those same items sell them for much cheaper. So yeah it keeps prices down however in some cases thats bad when the rest of us want money too.
Makes you not want to even bother saying anything. Wait till the rest of the world decides that and you have security holes everywhere.
Of course, can you have holes within holes?
I would assume your best guess would be to buy a multi-dvd recorder. The new Sony I believe does it, and I think they are only going for like $300. Try www.mwave.com or www.newegg.com.
I used to work (and still work within the same parent company) for a pretty large ISP in Southern California. I was unfortunate enough to be tasked with making a software CD. I decided to obviously put Windows software on the disks (Netscape, IE, Opera) and a couple newsreaders and email clients. I also threw on their Opera for Linux and a couple other things. The best answer to the question is: include software in which the tech staff is comfortable with. Obviously, if you include Joe's super Browser(TM) then your going to have problems with support. However, most calls are either OS related "Reboot" or email questions because the person doesnt type in their username correctly. On the flip side, you mine as well include as much software as you can get to fill the CD up because most of the time to make many copies it does not cost more depending on the space, just the volume. Hell, if you want you could always include some linux distro. Then support gets really fun.
I cant see how this would pass. I mean, isnt the government supposed to represent the people. I cant think of one person that would want this to pass unless they are part of the Entertainment industry and those whos money it directly effects. Of course, this is the US so you never know what will be done.
Oh goody, now software developers will be afraid to make good programs so now we will have a million half done unpublished programs. The only one that should be effected by this is Microsoft. Thats where the whole security problem is.
Lets hope if they do decide to bring them back, they decide also to make it illegal to hunt. Otherwise you mine as well just be making them to eat. And that would not be bringing back a species that was killed by us. That would just be bringing back the Tasmanian buffet.
Also what happened to Natural Selection? Even if they are a great species, lets not try to recreate Jurassic Park by bringing back things that are dead. I say leave nature alone and use that money towards saving us from falling into the dead species category.
Now the trick would be to get it so that when some of these games are ported to Windows, to have them able to play against eachother across the internet. That would be the real gem in the Xbox and online gaming. I wonder if this would be even possible due to the obviously differences in the controls and the games themselves, but it would still be worth a try to get it to work.