Read the GP again. His point was that the one thing AoC got right was the server stability, and said that they did it better than WoW, implying that WoW was poor.
FF Online? Casual? In what way is [spending 2-6 hours trying to get a party together just so you can kill a few mobs] part of a Casual game?
Unless they made it so more than 1 class could solo, or made it so that finding groups after level 40 didn't take a dedicated group of people doing it together day after day, then it was nothing near a Casual game.
And farmers! Farmers are not casual friendly, and that game has them in oodles, without instancing to shield you.
I only played it for 6 months (and reached level25+ with a few classes, and 45+ with 2), but I regret having wasted so much time in that MMORPG.
Unfortunately filters cannot do what I want - I have to explicitly create a filter ahead of time, and given that doing it manually would result in over 100+ filters, I'd prefer an extension to automatically filter the messages. Virtual search folders don't give me the benefit of sorting *out* all the messages with the header field I'm filtering on.
Basically, I want an extension to look at a header field and put it in a folder of the same name. Which extensions improve filtering to allow this?
I agree with the License Board bit - it's truly an annoyance. But you should have no problem tuning your gambits so that your characters keep themselves alive.
Just put an "Ally: HP "Cure" or something as your first priority on your healers... and I typically put "Ally: HP "Potion" above the cure. I find myself never even bothering to push a button unless I'm fighting something more than 10-15 levels above my chars with what I think is a fairly normal gambit setup.
Once I realized that putting "Ally: Any" -> "Blindna" would cause them only to cast blindna on an ally *when the ally had been blinded*, I realized the gambit system really was a thing of beauty and would be working for me, not against me.
Well, then I can't be alone in finding 7 and 8 to be relatively boring. I'll grant that FF3 was great, FFX was great, FFXI was horribly boring, but thankfully FFXII is bringing the series back to greatness (and so far, it's even better than FFX, I think, thanks to lack of childish emotions in the main characters).
Anyhow, level grinding is only necessary if you are trying to do all the optional/side quests the moment they become available. Virtually all of the FF games have optional/side quests that need grinding to complete. Think of the FF7 weapons, FFX bestiary proving grounds, etc.
But those are just for people who feel a need to make uber-characters and do 100%. It's pretty, its fun, and if by "short" you mean that "you can keep the plot moving rapidly by not grinding for sidequests", then you are right there, too. Being able to sprint through an area and not fight anything really helps in that regard.
The only thing I find obnoxious in the game is not being able to wear a piece of armor because of the license board. And worse, you don't even know *where* the armor you just acquired is located at on the board, so you don't even know exactly how to work there. You end up blazing a trail through an area hoping to find it. They should have either made it so you can retract license points on occasion or so you could see what's on squares that aren't necessarily next to your current licenses. I shouldn't have to look at a crappy text-version of the License Board on GameFAQs to figure out where I need to go on the board. With all that said, it's hardly a show stopper - it's just inconvenient to be blind on the Licenses.
You will never be without your favourite music with ZEN MICRO. Squeezed into its micro-sized casing is the capacity to store an astounding 2,500 songs on its 5GB hard drive (1)
and from the footnote:
(1) 2500 songs at 64kbps WMA. 1250 songs at 128kbps MP3. 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Available capacity will be less. Reported capacity will vary.
Emulating windows and thus emulating the areYouReallyMicrosoftWindows() function is not the slightest bit like lying about your license. And you don't emulate a license.
Yes, I didn't realize you were trying to say that 'demonstrable injury' is a criteria for restricting freedom.
Kill Bill vol. 2 prevents me from thinking too much on this, but my first thought is that an 8yr old can work in a factory and not suffer harm, and that 14 year olds can drink alcohol and not poison themselves or do something stupid. 13 year olds can drive cars, and anyone can drop dynamite in a lake and not cause injury.
But in all those cases, the likelihood of hurting someone or something is very high.
I'm curious.. why do you say there is "The Man"... Surely you realize that every other human being is nearly identical to yourself in their wants and desires. Bush/Congress are far more likely to want money and immunity from the law (aka something more akin to true freedom, which is what our diplomats have) than they are to want to make laws to fuck with you. Just relax. Most bad laws are either money-bought or were good-intentioned but poorly thought through.
And if you can't think of any reasons not to drop dynamite in a lake and still think its just 'The Man' out to fuck with you, then I think you have some issues with your perception of reality that prevent us from rationally discussing anything further. Sorry to sound condescending, but I argue to help people, and stop when its clear the person is not receptive..
I thought it would be clear enough that I deleted the following remark from my post:
"Look at our drug laws. Look at the laws banning public indecency. You simply aren't free to do anything you want, as every 20 yr. old trying to get into a 21+ club knows."
While all the caps/shouting and the 'piddly ass' in your post make me think your response is a troll, it does raise some points I'll address.
What's wrong with throwing dynamite into a lake?
This is a whole different topic (environment concerns, destruction of shared/non-privately owned resources, and so on..). As you say yourself, it's not the point... so lets use the other example which did a much better job of just raising the point I wanted.
Then you bring in this 'argument from adverse consequences' (putting pressure on the decision maker by pointing out dire consequences of an "unfavourable" decision). about shooting people.
Focus, Please.
I'm trying to understand what you're getting at here... My shooting example had the point that just because you have a right to something (here, I used happiness), that you don't have a right to get it [happiness] however you want. Nor do you have a right to get it [happiness] by some method [shooting you] just because that method's [shooting you's] purpose [making me happy] is to get what I have a right to [happiness].
In other words, the logic of the great-grandparent was flawed in claiming that we have a right to drive because driving is for travelling, and we have a right to travel. I have no idea if I addressed what you are unhappy about, but I hope this clears up what I said.
Now, your example: Let's say you OWN a car, it's YOURS. YOU CAN PROVE IT BY SHOWING THE CORRECT PAPERWORK.
So far, everybody is happy.
You have the RIGHT to do with it as you will.
<texan>Hold it right there, partner!</texan> No one has the right to do "whatever you want" with *anything*.. not even your own body!
Isn't *that* what FREEDOM *is*? Being able to do WHAT YOU WANT, with your shit?
Simple answer: Doing whatever you want with your stuff would mean no laws/rules/guidelines. No laws/etc means no government/ruler/leader. As you can see, this would require an anarchy, and would be quite chaotic. Thus, 'freedom' as you seem to mean it above, doesn't exist, although you might get quite close if you had an island in an ocean somewhere and it was your own nation.
Rambly Answer: If you lived in a perfect universe, and you were the only living being in that universe, then perhaps.
But as it is, we have laws that restrict your freedom. Generally, these laws are made to protect people and other organisms and the shared resources that we all need (such as air, land, and water that aren't contaminated).
Perhaps you are thinking of the USA where we claim to be "The Land of the Free.." At best, that means we can pick whatever religion we want, but don't expect to be able to start up a religion that says you get to paradise by killing all non-believers, and then acting in accordance with that belief and getting away with it.
Anyhow, the point is that if we could all do whatever we wanted with our stuff, we could shoot each other at will, drive over each other, take drugs, and do lots of other nasty things to each other. We don't have those 'freedoms', since they would be rather destructive of our civilization.
Now, I suspect you're going to say, "The State Owns The Roads"
There are a lot more issues restricting what you can do with your car, besides the fact that you don't own the roads that you want to use.
Betcha a dollar "The State" can't prove it. And some piddly ass A.D.A. CERTAINLY CANNOT PRODUCE THE PAPERWORK. (much less actually prove the existance of his "client", and a real "attorney/client" relationship with them...)... see my last comment...
the right to travel freely is enjoyed by all citizens. As the primary purpose of driving is to travel from one point to another, it must therefore be a right.
'Not so fast, bub...'
This is like saying that I have a right to eat, and since the primary purpose of throwing dynamite in a lake is so that I have something to eat, it must be my right...
Or... I have the right to be happy.. and the primary purpose of me shooting you is to make me happy, therefore shooting you must be my right. =)
In any case, just because you have a right to do something, and there is A method of accomplishing that something, doesn't mean that the METHOD is your right. There may be lots of other methods, and your failure to properly execute a method is valid grounds for making you use a different method (as is the case here with driving).
Well, that's odd. I can go to the w3 home page, enter http://slashdot.org, and it runs the validation fine. The link on the resulting page works for me once, maybe twice, and then it gives the 403 error.
Guess you have to go type http://slashdot.org into a box if you actually want to see the validation.
Or, someone with more time on their hands code look at the page source and see why the resulting link doesn't work but pressing the validate button makes it work...
Well, we will, eventually. But the problem was that there was data on the drive that wasn't back up but that was really important... Thus, the data on it needed to be recovered if at all possible.
I expect that we will send the drive back once we know that we have gotten everything important off of it (which I can only wonder why they dont just back the whole thing off to tape or to another disk... but I'm not the guy in charge of that stuff).
Well, I know it sounds crazy, but i went through the same harddrive problem you just described...
However, we put the dead and clicking harddrive (it wouldnt boot b/c the motherboard wouldnt recognize it) into another computer as a slave, and even though that computer's motherboard didn't recognize it either, windows was still able to access and read it, and the drive still works as a slave to this day (only a few weeks after the fact, but still).
I considered myself fairly knowledgable about computers, but I was really surprised to find that a hard drive was readable even when it wasnt recognized by the BIOS and was unbootable.. so maybe if you had booted off a DOS disk, you could have read it. It never hurts to try something... (also, we froze the harddrive for several hours to try to resuscitate it... I dunno if it helped, but it didnt kill the drive.)
Yes, it wounds like he's reinventing the wheel, but it also sounds like he's got honest improvements in its design.
I think the sad part is that it has to end with this sort of begging for support (by trying to make everyone look ungrateful). I know I used the LRP a couple times in the past year to convert an old laptop into a handy router (saved me $50 or whatever the cost of a router is =), maybe I should donate... hmmm...)
Voice recognition is nowhere near as capable as a mouse, keyboard, or even 'bending' for something such as gaming. Imagine playing half-life by having to say "strafe left, start shooting, duck, strafe right, stop shooting, reload, walk, stafe left, shoot, run right"... and thats not even aiming.
The only way voice recognition could handle a situation like that would to have higher level commands (almost like what you'd find in movies) that would make the game play itself, really. I imagine something like "go forward, explore cautiously... (wait wait wait) (see enemy) attack! aggressive! now evade! (enemy dies)"... i mean. Its basically playing itself (and it certainly could at that point). it'd just be a voice activated aimbot.
Now, about the only thing I think voice recognition is exceptionally good at is dictation of documents...
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I'm charged for trash pick-up which is where it goes.
But you'd pay the same for trash pick up regardless of whether or not you got the AOL CD in the mail.
You might could argue that if AOL didn't send the CDs to everyone, that then garbage costs might go down a penny or something, but I think that's incredibly farfetched.
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Previous prank of a theme change... Some of us liked it ;D
Read the GP again. His point was that the one thing AoC got right was the server stability, and said that they did it better than WoW, implying that WoW was poor.
I'm wondering if I'm just feeding a troll...
FF Online? Casual? In what way is [spending 2-6 hours trying to get a party together just so you can kill a few mobs] part of a Casual game?
Unless they made it so more than 1 class could solo, or made it so that finding groups after level 40 didn't take a dedicated group of people doing it together day after day, then it was nothing near a Casual game.
And farmers! Farmers are not casual friendly, and that game has them in oodles, without instancing to shield you.
I only played it for 6 months (and reached level25+ with a few classes, and 45+ with 2), but I regret having wasted so much time in that MMORPG.
Unfortunately filters cannot do what I want - I have to explicitly create a filter ahead of time, and given that doing it manually would result in over 100+ filters, I'd prefer an extension to automatically filter the messages. Virtual search folders don't give me the benefit of sorting *out* all the messages with the header field I'm filtering on.
Basically, I want an extension to look at a header field and put it in a folder of the same name. Which extensions improve filtering to allow this?
I've been looking for an extension to sort mail into folders based on a header field. Anyone heard of such a thing?
I agree with the License Board bit - it's truly an annoyance. But you should have no problem tuning your gambits so that your characters keep themselves alive.
Just put an "Ally: HP "Cure" or something as your first priority on your healers... and I typically put "Ally: HP "Potion" above the cure. I find myself never even bothering to push a button unless I'm fighting something more than 10-15 levels above my chars with what I think is a fairly normal gambit setup.
Once I realized that putting "Ally: Any" -> "Blindna" would cause them only to cast blindna on an ally *when the ally had been blinded*, I realized the gambit system really was a thing of beauty and would be working for me, not against me.
Well, then I can't be alone in finding 7 and 8 to be relatively boring. I'll grant that FF3 was great, FFX was great, FFXI was horribly boring, but thankfully FFXII is bringing the series back to greatness (and so far, it's even better than FFX, I think, thanks to lack of childish emotions in the main characters).
Anyhow, level grinding is only necessary if you are trying to do all the optional/side quests the moment they become available. Virtually all of the FF games have optional/side quests that need grinding to complete. Think of the FF7 weapons, FFX bestiary proving grounds, etc.
But those are just for people who feel a need to make uber-characters and do 100%. It's pretty, its fun, and if by "short" you mean that "you can keep the plot moving rapidly by not grinding for sidequests", then you are right there, too. Being able to sprint through an area and not fight anything really helps in that regard.
The only thing I find obnoxious in the game is not being able to wear a piece of armor because of the license board. And worse, you don't even know *where* the armor you just acquired is located at on the board, so you don't even know exactly how to work there. You end up blazing a trail through an area hoping to find it. They should have either made it so you can retract license points on occasion or so you could see what's on squares that aren't necessarily next to your current licenses. I shouldn't have to look at a crappy text-version of the License Board on GameFAQs to figure out where I need to go on the board. With all that said, it's hardly a show stopper - it's just inconvenient to be blind on the Licenses.
And holy $@!@ the game is pretty.
From the article: and from the footnote:
Emulating windows and thus emulating the areYouReallyMicrosoftWindows() function is not the slightest bit like lying about your license. And you don't emulate a license.
Yes, I didn't realize you were trying to say that 'demonstrable injury' is a criteria for restricting freedom.
Kill Bill vol. 2 prevents me from thinking too much on this, but my first thought is that an 8yr old can work in a factory and not suffer harm, and that 14 year olds can drink alcohol and not poison themselves or do something stupid. 13 year olds can drive cars, and anyone can drop dynamite in a lake and not cause injury.
But in all those cases, the likelihood of hurting someone or something is very high.
I'm curious.. why do you say there is "The Man"...
Surely you realize that every other human being is nearly identical to yourself in their wants and desires. Bush/Congress are far more likely to want money and immunity from the law (aka something more akin to true freedom, which is what our diplomats have) than they are to want to make laws to fuck with you. Just relax. Most bad laws are either money-bought or were good-intentioned but poorly thought through.
And if you can't think of any reasons not to drop dynamite in a lake and still think its just 'The Man' out to fuck with you, then I think you have some issues with your perception of reality that prevent us from rationally discussing anything further. Sorry to sound condescending, but I argue to help people, and stop when its clear the person is not receptive..
I thought it would be clear enough that I deleted the following remark from my post:
"Look at our drug laws. Look at the laws banning public indecency. You simply aren't free to do anything you want, as every 20 yr. old trying to get into a 21+ club knows."
Well, as long as you complete it with..
"Apple exists to serve the stockholders"
then you'll be fine =)
I doubt I'm abnormal when I haven't paid any attention to looking at, touching, or smelling a rose in at least several months, if not years.
How is being able to recall all the many details of a rose that I haven't 'experienced' in so long an indicator of *short term* working memory?
one of the reasons I like USB is that it's a POWERED connection
That's a good point, but... This isn't a wireless upgrade for USB, it's more of a high-speed upgrade for Bluetooth.
While all the caps/shouting and the 'piddly ass' in your post make me think your response is a troll, it does raise some points I'll address.
... see my last comment ...
What's wrong with throwing dynamite into a lake?
This is a whole different topic (environment concerns, destruction of shared/non-privately owned resources, and so on..). As you say yourself, it's not the point... so lets use the other example which did a much better job of just raising the point I wanted.
Then you bring in this 'argument from adverse consequences' (putting pressure on the decision maker by pointing out dire consequences of an "unfavourable" decision). about shooting people.
Focus, Please.
I'm trying to understand what you're getting at here... My shooting example had the point that just because you have a right to something (here, I used happiness), that you don't have a right to get it [happiness] however you want. Nor do you have a right to get it [happiness] by some method [shooting you] just because that method's [shooting you's] purpose [making me happy] is to get what I have a right to [happiness].
In other words, the logic of the great-grandparent was flawed in claiming that we have a right to drive because driving is for travelling, and we have a right to travel.
I have no idea if I addressed what you are unhappy about, but I hope this clears up what I said.
Now, your example:
Let's say you OWN a car, it's YOURS. YOU CAN PROVE IT BY SHOWING THE CORRECT PAPERWORK.
So far, everybody is happy.
You have the RIGHT to do with it as you will.
<texan>Hold it right there, partner!</texan> No one has the right to do "whatever you want" with *anything*.. not even your own body!
Isn't *that* what FREEDOM *is*? Being able to do WHAT YOU WANT, with your shit?
Simple answer: Doing whatever you want with your stuff would mean no laws/rules/guidelines. No laws/etc means no government/ruler/leader. As you can see, this would require an anarchy, and would be quite chaotic. Thus, 'freedom' as you seem to mean it above, doesn't exist, although you might get quite close if you had an island in an ocean somewhere and it was your own nation.
Rambly Answer: If you lived in a perfect universe, and you were the only living being in that universe, then perhaps.
But as it is, we have laws that restrict your freedom. Generally, these laws are made to protect people and other organisms and the shared resources that we all need (such as air, land, and water that aren't contaminated).
Perhaps you are thinking of the USA where we claim to be "The Land of the Free.." At best, that means we can pick whatever religion we want, but don't expect to be able to start up a religion that says you get to paradise by killing all non-believers, and then acting in accordance with that belief and getting away with it.
Anyhow, the point is that if we could all do whatever we wanted with our stuff, we could shoot each other at will, drive over each other, take drugs, and do lots of other nasty things to each other. We don't have those 'freedoms', since they would be rather destructive of our civilization.
Now, I suspect you're going to say, "The State Owns The Roads"
There are a lot more issues restricting what you can do with your car, besides the fact that you don't own the roads that you want to use.
Betcha a dollar "The State" can't prove it. And some piddly ass A.D.A. CERTAINLY CANNOT PRODUCE THE PAPERWORK. (much less actually prove the existance of his "client", and a real "attorney/client" relationship with them...)
the right to travel freely is enjoyed by all citizens. As the primary purpose of driving is to travel from one point to another, it must therefore be a right.
'Not so fast, bub...'
This is like saying that I have a right to eat, and since the primary purpose of throwing dynamite in a lake is so that I have something to eat, it must be my right...
Or... I have the right to be happy.. and the primary purpose of me shooting you is to make me happy, therefore shooting you must be my right. =)
In any case, just because you have a right to do something, and there is A method of accomplishing that something, doesn't mean that the METHOD is your right. There may be lots of other methods, and your failure to properly execute a method is valid grounds for making you use a different method (as is the case here with driving).
Well, that's odd. I can go to the w3 home page, enter http://slashdot.org, and it runs the validation fine. The link on the resulting page works for me once, maybe twice, and then it gives the 403 error.
Guess you have to go type http://slashdot.org into a box if you actually want to see the validation.
Or, someone with more time on their hands code look at the page source and see why the resulting link doesn't work but pressing the validate button makes it work...
oh dear... foolip is spreading 'FUD' ;-)
/.er knows that the site is actually just slashdot.org.
Slashdot isn't blocking the validator - it's just that foolip's link is broken.
The link tells the w3 validator to have www.slashdot.org validated, but any good
Here's a fixed link, which shows the w3 validating the site with no "permission denied" because of a bad site name.
Well, we will, eventually. But the problem was that there was data on the drive that wasn't back up but that was really important... Thus, the data on it needed to be recovered if at all possible.
I expect that we will send the drive back once we know that we have gotten everything important off of it (which I can only wonder why they dont just back the whole thing off to tape or to another disk... but I'm not the guy in charge of that stuff).
I hope I don't sound like a troll... but it's fairly easy to read ntfs from DOS... it would naive to think he meant DOS 6.2 or something...
Look at www.ntfs.com, they offer a DOS boot disk capable of reading NTFS partitions, for free-as-in-beer
Well, I know it sounds crazy, but i went through the same harddrive problem you just described...
However, we put the dead and clicking harddrive (it wouldnt boot b/c the motherboard wouldnt recognize it) into another computer as a slave, and even though that computer's motherboard didn't recognize it either, windows was still able to access and read it, and the drive still works as a slave to this day (only a few weeks after the fact, but still).
I considered myself fairly knowledgable about computers, but I was really surprised to find that a hard drive was readable even when it wasnt recognized by the BIOS and was unbootable.. so maybe if you had booted off a DOS disk, you could have read it. It never hurts to try something... (also, we froze the harddrive for several hours to try to resuscitate it... I dunno if it helped, but it didnt kill the drive.)
Yes, it wounds like he's reinventing the wheel, but it also sounds like he's got honest improvements in its design.
I think the sad part is that it has to end with this sort of begging for support (by trying to make everyone look ungrateful). I know I used the LRP a couple times in the past year to convert an old laptop into a handy router (saved me $50 or whatever the cost of a router is =), maybe I should donate... hmmm...)
Voice recognition is nowhere near as capable as a mouse, keyboard, or even 'bending' for something such as gaming. Imagine playing half-life by having to say "strafe left, start shooting, duck, strafe right, stop shooting, reload, walk, stafe left, shoot, run right"... and thats not even aiming.
:-P
The only way voice recognition could handle a situation like that would to have higher level commands (almost like what you'd find in movies) that would make the game play itself, really. I imagine something like "go forward, explore cautiously... (wait wait wait) (see enemy) attack! aggressive! now evade! (enemy dies)"... i mean. Its basically playing itself (and it certainly could at that point). it'd just be a voice activated aimbot.
Now, about the only thing I think voice recognition is exceptionally good at is dictation of documents...
For everything else, there's [master]card
The old "all consoles sold at a loss" myth... The best truth is told here: acts of gord, proclamation 2!
But you'd pay the same for trash pick up regardless of whether or not you got the AOL CD in the mail.
You might could argue that if AOL didn't send the CDs to everyone, that then garbage costs might go down a penny or something, but I think that's incredibly farfetched.