For upgradability and duplication purposes vidio should be seperate or have some code that allows the user to disable the unwanted video device The Best bet would be for insertion into a passive backplane where socket placement / numbering determines priority (keep it simple for those PBCKs we have to support). Advanced users would probably want a simple BIOS on the backplane itself for feature selection.
Thats easily fixed by naming the items. In UO all things have scipts attached to them. If a person gets a sword in quest X, or soemthing, then a script can be attached to it, or the description / name switch edited, that gives a special story to the item.
This would work just like in WotC's Magic: The Gathering where you have a rare card tats worh alot of real money because it has a series symbol of some sort on it even though you can find the same card in the common packages.
UO items were set to spawn at a certain rate depending on the number of items in play at the time. We had to reset the numbers a few times because of those damn farmers and their hording. Remember when colored ore came out and how hard it was to get. Not to mention how hard the skills were to level and maintain.
This problem led to a number of UO Game Masters being canned and sued because of item selling and stat fixing sold to the highest bidder on ebay.
What they are probably trying to do is something akin to DoCoMo, in Japan, but with laptops. Intel may branch out into Cell market with it. Here are some articles on what DoCoMo is doing.
Good lord man..what are you talking about. Are you saying Glen Yarbrough can't sing? The man put folk in Folk Music and I can't think of another person as qualified to put sone to Tolkien's works.
I agree that without the merchandise we probably wouldn't get to see the movies but it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Tolkien's original objective was to give the English as sense of history that he believed they had lost. All of this crass commercialism sullies the purpose of his works.
I happen to diagree. While it wasn't perfectly true to the story the R&B production did have the feel of the book and effectivly transmited that feeling to the viewer. The Hobbit was a childrens story and the movie handeled it as such with just enough kick to make it interesting for adults to watch as well. If nothing it got many, myself included, interested in Tolkiens works and fantasy in general.
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I'd have to totally agree with you on that one. Once EA took over all logic was thrown to the window.
For upgradability and duplication purposes vidio should be seperate or have some code that allows the user to disable the unwanted video device The Best bet would be for insertion into a passive backplane where socket placement / numbering determines priority (keep it simple for those PBCKs we have to support). Advanced users would probably want a simple BIOS on the backplane itself for feature selection.
Thats easily fixed by naming the items. In UO all things have scipts attached to them. If a person gets a sword in quest X, or soemthing, then a script can be attached to it, or the description / name switch edited, that gives a special story to the item. This would work just like in WotC's Magic: The Gathering where you have a rare card tats worh alot of real money because it has a series symbol of some sort on it even though you can find the same card in the common packages.
UO items were set to spawn at a certain rate depending on the number of items in play at the time. We had to reset the numbers a few times because of those damn farmers and their hording. Remember when colored ore came out and how hard it was to get. Not to mention how hard the skills were to level and maintain. This problem led to a number of UO Game Masters being canned and sued because of item selling and stat fixing sold to the highest bidder on ebay.
Good lord man..what are you talking about. Are you saying Glen Yarbrough can't sing? The man put folk in Folk Music and I can't think of another person as qualified to put sone to Tolkien's works.
I agree that without the merchandise we probably wouldn't get to see the movies but it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Tolkien's original objective was to give the English as sense of history that he believed they had lost. All of this crass commercialism sullies the purpose of his works.
I happen to diagree. While it wasn't perfectly true to the story the R&B production did have the feel of the book and effectivly transmited that feeling to the viewer. The Hobbit was a childrens story and the movie handeled it as such with just enough kick to make it interesting for adults to watch as well. If nothing it got many, myself included, interested in Tolkiens works and fantasy in general.
I spit Coke through my nose, that was so funny. Thanks for a good laugh.