My friend who played CoH/V for some time made a villain and also used to use the teleport foe power to bring people to the drones to get killed and indebted. I instead used a Stalker (stealth hitter with big opening attack) during the brief time I played.
One constant was the amount of whining in-game. Most PvP MMOs dont allow the two enemy sides to talk to one another to lessen this kind of nerd-rage trash talk, but COH does, for good or for ill.
People would whine when I attacked them (note: with no teleport abilites) because they were just in the zone to 'quest'. Well, it has big warning signs all over it when you enter, and I came here to bash some heroes, not drink tea and discuss politics.
So: in short, each game has a different culture. In WoW, if the character regularly used cheese tactics and ganked regularly, people might dislike him, but the playerbase as a whole is far more tough-skinned. Interestingly, the player base of CoH/V skews to an older set, perhaps one not inured to getting defeated in online games by countless hours of getting spawn killed in twitch shooters.
Nothing new here, CoH is a carebear game. Carebears dont like dying. Period.
Id rather he spent his time on EvE - that is a microcosm of real society and would have been far more interesting.
This is modded insightful? Wow, how far Slashdot has fallen.
Since we have dropped off the face of logic, you might as well shit-can this whole thing. The stupid mob has taken over and we have inflammatory nonsense like what is posted above.
Im sorry but Deus Ex is 10 times the game L4D is, which is just a glorified HL2 mod.
Please, give the man some respect, he created, in Deus Ex 1, one of the most complelling and vivid sci-fi settings I have ever had the pleasure to indulge in since Neuromancer.
Narrative, done well like Deus Ex 1, gives the player room to make choices and experience consequences. Most importantly, the narrative gives actions purpose. If there is no story, who cares that you just killed the Grand Foozle of Badness? It is out of context and just a collection of pixels you pumelled.
Especially since the patents I'm paying for are being ignored on both my Canadian and Mexican borders
Actually, you're quite wrong. Canadians respect WIPO patents - what they don't do, is let individual HMO's or people deal directly with drug companies who can then charge maximum rates. Instead, in a sort of collective bargaining arrangement, we buy our drugs in bulk then distribute to hospitals, etc.
In other words the government negotiates with Big Pharma - you want to do business here (and they do), you don't charge out the nose, although there are still exceptions to this. I cannot quite understand why Amercians do not demand this from their government as well - its almost like the politicans want you to pay more.
I'm afraid this is a gross oversimplification and I suspect you are aware of this.
The textbook publishing business is a racket - a grossly monopolized industry with a captive audience.
You wonder why China is pushing ahead? Do you think they charge their students outrageous fees for dead paper or do they make widespread use of digital technologies?
If the West was not so greedy we would have retained a technological edge.
Ubh - you realize there are numerous organization and sites usually on every campus that do just that?
The cartel of the publishers/professors have a lock-in, so even in a field where nothing changes year to year you'll still get a new edition so they can milk the students even more.
It's bunk - it's not true, with the possible exception of government. The Canadian government does not regulate private industry to force them to run their own business meetings in any language. You can speak what you would like from Mandarin to Greek.
That being said, forced billingualism as a policy for commercial publishing including marketing and packaging of goods is enforced, and I don't think it's a bad idea. Heck, the Swiss make do with three languages (more?) Swiss, Swiss-German and Swiss-French.
However, don't tell me what language to speak in my private industry meetings with clients - that's borderline fascist and completely absurd.
The point is, even with the USA becoming increasingly isolationist, you have no such laws - rightly, they are viewed as odious.
The government should stay out of our bedrooms - and out of our boardrooms. The point you clearly missed is that France has such laws already, and should be derided for it.
There is no such law - business meetings can be held in Swahili if I so desire.
If there is a law such as this in France, it's pretty disturbing, on par with Quebec's language police - la office de la langue francaise (why they use office when bureau is correct french is beyond me, but hey, noone said cultural isolationists have to make sense - besides, the french spoken in Quebec is a patois mish-mash and hardly understandable by anyone who speaks parisienne)
muslim caliph ordered the library of alexandria burnt down
Whoa, whoa, whoa there. This is so out of line its not funny. The library of Alexandria was torched by Christians, during the period that it contained the wealth of knowledge of the ancient world, by the decree of Theophilus, prelate of Egypt. This is well proven by Gibbons in the Decline and Fall no matter how wikpedia may choose to present it's facts - conflating the decree of Theophilus with the conquest of the city by Caesar and the much later conquest by the Muslims. (because, you know, we can't have articles overly critical of Christianity or any other widespread superstition) Make no mistake - Theophilus had the books burned as they contained 'the fruits of idolatry' - he who detested paganism and went so far as to scourge Alexandria of any and all 'pagan' temples, which included the library. I detest all superstitions equally, yet no man of learning can attribute the destruction of that centre of knowledge to anyone but Theophilus and his zeal.
That is true, but if you think with a new flat schema things will be any more logical you are sadly mistaken. If anything, they will become even more illogical, DNS logs are going to bloat and propagation time will become an issue. I also fail to see how having a commerical site at.net or.org is really an issue - introducting additional TLD's would solve this problem, not opening the whole system up to whomever can afford one.
This decision makes no sense from an engineering perspective, but I am sure marketing people will love it. Just think 'Imlovinit.mcdonalds'! Yay for progress!
Hmmm..let's open up the TLD's so that DNS servers will become overcrowded with useless DNS information that will quickly go out of date and throw the usability and simplicity of the current schema right out the window.
Additionally, of course, common folk will have more trouble getting a domain name for that personal website/application because the fees are going to increase exponetially.
My god, there sure are a lot of apologists for Apple who will use whatever twisted logic they can in a futile attempt to spin Apple's practices as anything but what they are - unethical.
'But - but - but, Safari does'nt have a monopoly!' Ergo, what they are doing is ok? Give me a break.
Pull your heads out of the Apple spin cycle and try to examine the issue dispassionately, you might find you come to a similar conclusion.
As far as people not knowing how to remove checkboxes having 'not being allowed to sit in front of a computer' - you clearly have not been around enough. That describes the majority of the population online.
Or are you saying that they exist for the distribution of copyrighted material illegally, in which case we all couldn't really care less what their problems are, and you should report them to the appropriate authorities instead of helping them break the law? Not everyone lives in your digital backwater. Believe it or not, there are countries with forward-looking instead of protectionist IP laws. Further, I hate to take away from your offtopic little rant, but perhaps they don't want to spend the money on a signed certificate? They're not exactly cheap - but I assume you know this since you sound like you work at VeriSign.
What is the point of being sure that no one can intercept your communication all the way from your browser to the server if you don't know who you are talking to in the first place? Yet you do know who you are talking to - the site that provided you with the certificate in the first place. Would I accept a self-signed certificate for online banking? Probably not, however for the purposes discussed it is perfectly acceptable.
When they later are victims of phishing attacks everyone on Slashdot is saying to blame the victims because they have entered the fake bank website with an incorrect SSL certificate We think they are stupid because they are. If you don't bother to verify the URL and instead click on some seemingly legitimate link that appeared in your email without checking where it is pointing, that is the direct cause, as opposed to the client's acceptance of the self-signed certificate.
And these are the most important problems caused by self-signed certificates. False sense of security Uh, I would argue this is the problem with signed certificates. To wit, the famous case where two of MS's certs were 'hijacked' - how that is even possible without colossal stupidity I do not know - now delisted, but for a good while a security threat.
As an aside, I truly hope your sig is meant to be ironic. s-u-p-e-r-i-o-r
The real question is why are you defending Apple's unethical bundling - when the same is performed by Microsoft we criticize it. Call a spade a spade or you look foolish. Face it, this kind of practice is unacceptable, whether or not it comes from your favorite company.
Is it so difficult for you to uncheck that box if you're performing an update? For me, no. For millions of uneducated end users, it is. Get it?
Hmm..I don't know, by advancing battery technology? Power storage, you know, to overcome the periods of dark.
Also, unless the singularity arrives, there is enough predicatablity in the system (of light and dark rotation) with only a small amount of variance due to weather. Ignoring the condescending tone of your post, a combination of available technologies is best, as opposed to throwing up fission plants in every community.
Unless those documents contain any of the new functionality included with Office 2007. We have deployed 2003 and in a similar situation, while the compatibility pack enables viewing of documents with the 2007 format and adds the format as an option to save to, the function is often broken. I was stumped by a senior manager asking why he received the message the file could not be saved as it is in use, as the workbook in question was not set for simultaneous updates and the file was not opening in read-only. Then I realized he was trying to save as a 'Excel 2007 Workbook', using Office 2003 enterprise + compatibility pack. Just FYI, theres really no denying that Microsoft's practices in this area (and for that matter, Adobe's) are reprehensible.
Stop posting AC if you're going to make such inflammatory remarks, I'd like to know who you are so I can avoid your small-mindedness in the future.
Slashdot is not exactly a bastion of anti-American sentiment, sorry. You'll need to look elsewhere to justify your 'poor us' self-pity. People do judge harshly, however, a populace as a whole that votes in a highly unpopular leader, twice. That being said, most sane individuals are able to distinguish between the populace at large and individual persons.
Or you could go back to LGF and take solace in the fact that there are indeed others who have the same pathos as you, to our eternal regret.
This is what is wrong with politics in your country - a bunch of factionists, akin to the Greens and the Blues, whose understanding of the issues and mentality in general is so shallow that politics becomes a football game, cheering for your home team, regardless of what is happening to the country.
If you think that Clinton is any less a facist (read: corporatist) than Bush, I am sorry you are so blind to reality.
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The professor might be a joke but these carebear tear carryovers are even more pathetic.
People's pixels got hurt in a online game, we get it.
My friend who played CoH/V for some time made a villain and also used to use the teleport foe power to bring people to the drones to get killed and indebted. I instead used a Stalker (stealth hitter with big opening attack) during the brief time I played.
One constant was the amount of whining in-game. Most PvP MMOs dont allow the two enemy sides to talk to one another to lessen this kind of nerd-rage trash talk, but COH does, for good or for ill.
People would whine when I attacked them (note: with no teleport abilites) because they were just in the zone to 'quest'. Well, it has big warning signs all over it when you enter, and I came here to bash some heroes, not drink tea and discuss politics.
So: in short, each game has a different culture. In WoW, if the character regularly used cheese tactics and ganked regularly, people might dislike him, but the playerbase as a whole is far more tough-skinned. Interestingly, the player base of CoH/V skews to an older set, perhaps one not inured to getting defeated in online games by countless hours of getting spawn killed in twitch shooters.
Nothing new here, CoH is a carebear game. Carebears dont like dying. Period.
Id rather he spent his time on EvE - that is a microcosm of real society and would have been far more interesting.
This is modded insightful? Wow, how far Slashdot has fallen.
Since we have dropped off the face of logic, you might as well shit-can this whole thing. The stupid mob has taken over and we have inflammatory nonsense like what is posted above.
Im sorry but Deus Ex is 10 times the game L4D is, which is just a glorified HL2 mod.
Please, give the man some respect, he created, in Deus Ex 1, one of the most complelling and vivid sci-fi settings I have ever had the pleasure to indulge in since Neuromancer.
Narrative, done well like Deus Ex 1, gives the player room to make choices and experience consequences. Most importantly, the narrative gives actions purpose. If there is no story, who cares that you just killed the Grand Foozle of Badness? It is out of context and just a collection of pixels you pumelled.
Especially since the patents I'm paying for are being ignored on both my Canadian and Mexican borders
Actually, you're quite wrong. Canadians respect WIPO patents - what they don't do, is let individual HMO's or people deal directly with drug companies who can then charge maximum rates. Instead, in a sort of collective bargaining arrangement, we buy our drugs in bulk then distribute to hospitals, etc.
In other words the government negotiates with Big Pharma - you want to do business here (and they do), you don't charge out the nose, although there are still exceptions to this. I cannot quite understand why Amercians do not demand this from their government as well - its almost like the politicans want you to pay more.
But that could'nt be, could it?
I'm afraid this is a gross oversimplification and I suspect you are aware of this.
The textbook publishing business is a racket - a grossly monopolized industry with a captive audience.
You wonder why China is pushing ahead? Do you think they charge their students outrageous fees for dead paper or do they make widespread use of digital technologies?
If the West was not so greedy we would have retained a technological edge.
Ubh - you realize there are numerous organization and sites usually on every campus that do just that?
The cartel of the publishers/professors have a lock-in, so even in a field where nothing changes year to year you'll still get a new edition so they can milk the students even more.
It's bunk - it's not true, with the possible exception of government. The Canadian government does not regulate private industry to force them to run their own business meetings in any language. You can speak what you would like from Mandarin to Greek.
That being said, forced billingualism as a policy for commercial publishing including marketing and packaging of goods is enforced, and I don't think it's a bad idea. Heck, the Swiss make do with three languages (more?) Swiss, Swiss-German and Swiss-French.
However, don't tell me what language to speak in my private industry meetings with clients - that's borderline fascist and completely absurd.
It's this kind of UI evangelism that drives businesses into the ground. Was there a reason not to include folders in addition to labels?
The point is, even with the USA becoming increasingly isolationist, you have no such laws - rightly, they are viewed as odious.
The government should stay out of our bedrooms - and out of our boardrooms. The point you clearly missed is that France has such laws already, and should be derided for it.
There is no such law - business meetings can be held in Swahili if I so desire.
If there is a law such as this in France, it's pretty disturbing, on par with Quebec's language police - la office de la langue francaise (why they use office when bureau is correct french is beyond me, but hey, noone said cultural isolationists have to make sense - besides, the french spoken in Quebec is a patois mish-mash and hardly understandable by anyone who speaks parisienne)
muslim caliph ordered the library of alexandria burnt down
Whoa, whoa, whoa there. This is so out of line its not funny. The library of Alexandria was torched by Christians, during the period that it contained the wealth of knowledge of the ancient world, by the decree of Theophilus, prelate of Egypt. This is well proven by Gibbons in the Decline and Fall no matter how wikpedia may choose to present it's facts - conflating the decree of Theophilus with the conquest of the city by Caesar and the much later conquest by the Muslims. (because, you know, we can't have articles overly critical of Christianity or any other widespread superstition) Make no mistake - Theophilus had the books burned as they contained 'the fruits of idolatry' - he who detested paganism and went so far as to scourge Alexandria of any and all 'pagan' temples, which included the library. I detest all superstitions equally, yet no man of learning can attribute the destruction of that centre of knowledge to anyone but Theophilus and his zeal.
That is true, but if you think with a new flat schema things will be any more logical you are sadly mistaken. If anything, they will become even more illogical, DNS logs are going to bloat and propagation time will become an issue. I also fail to see how having a commerical site at .net or .org is really an issue - introducting additional TLD's would solve this problem, not opening the whole system up to whomever can afford one.
This decision makes no sense from an engineering perspective, but I am sure marketing people will love it. Just think 'Imlovinit.mcdonalds'! Yay for progress!
Hmmm..let's open up the TLD's so that DNS servers will become overcrowded with useless DNS information that will quickly go out of date and throw the usability and simplicity of the current schema right out the window.
Additionally, of course, common folk will have more trouble getting a domain name for that personal website/application because the fees are going to increase exponetially.
Cash-in for ICANN - and end users lose.
My god, there sure are a lot of apologists for Apple who will use whatever twisted logic they can in a futile attempt to spin Apple's practices as anything but what they are - unethical.
'But - but - but, Safari does'nt have a monopoly!' Ergo, what they are doing is ok? Give me a break.
Pull your heads out of the Apple spin cycle and try to examine the issue dispassionately, you might find you come to a similar conclusion.
As far as people not knowing how to remove checkboxes having 'not being allowed to sit in front of a computer' - you clearly have not been around enough. That describes the majority of the population online.
No worries, you still have Teddy.
As an aside, I truly hope your sig is meant to be ironic. s-u-p-e-r-i-o-r
The real question is why are you defending Apple's unethical bundling - when the same is performed by Microsoft we criticize it. Call a spade a spade or you look foolish. Face it, this kind of practice is unacceptable, whether or not it comes from your favorite company.
Is it so difficult for you to uncheck that box if you're performing an update? For me, no. For millions of uneducated end users, it is. Get it?Hmm..I don't know, by advancing battery technology? Power storage, you know, to overcome the periods of dark.
Also, unless the singularity arrives, there is enough predicatablity in the system (of light and dark rotation) with only a small amount of variance due to weather. Ignoring the condescending tone of your post, a combination of available technologies is best, as opposed to throwing up fission plants in every community.
Birds also fly into skyscrapers all the time. Should we tear down the ones we have and not build vertically in the future?
Unless those documents contain any of the new functionality included with Office 2007. We have deployed 2003 and in a similar situation, while the compatibility pack enables viewing of documents with the 2007 format and adds the format as an option to save to, the function is often broken. I was stumped by a senior manager asking why he received the message the file could not be saved as it is in use, as the workbook in question was not set for simultaneous updates and the file was not opening in read-only. Then I realized he was trying to save as a 'Excel 2007 Workbook', using Office 2003 enterprise + compatibility pack. Just FYI, theres really no denying that Microsoft's practices in this area (and for that matter, Adobe's) are reprehensible.
Perhaps it seems obvious now, but in 1945? I doubt anyone would call it obvious.
Stop posting AC if you're going to make such inflammatory remarks, I'd like to know who you are so I can avoid your small-mindedness in the future.
Slashdot is not exactly a bastion of anti-American sentiment, sorry. You'll need to look elsewhere to justify your 'poor us' self-pity. People do judge harshly, however, a populace as a whole that votes in a highly unpopular leader, twice. That being said, most sane individuals are able to distinguish between the populace at large and individual persons.
Or you could go back to LGF and take solace in the fact that there are indeed others who have the same pathos as you, to our eternal regret.
This is what is wrong with politics in your country - a bunch of factionists, akin to the Greens and the Blues, whose understanding of the issues and mentality in general is so shallow that politics becomes a football game, cheering for your home team, regardless of what is happening to the country.
If you think that Clinton is any less a facist (read: corporatist) than Bush, I am sorry you are so blind to reality.