They should make it so that the higher your level is the worse an item an enemy will drop (maybe determined by the level of monster to level of player or something like that). Basically making it so that a lvl 50 can't go around farming early creatures to get decent things to sell, instead he gets less goodthings out of this. As I see it, this should kill off most of the farming that goes on, and make it easier for newer people to get the stuff they need.
Reminds me of the local taco bell, I went in there once with a $50 and a $2 and they refused the $50. So, I handed them the $2 and they denied me service and tried to call the cops saying that my $2 was 'funny money' because they 'know full well that $2 don't exist'. The cops came and the manager and staff were all embarassed that they were in the wrong.
It is a shame that people have a threshhold of 2 or more, I have seen some wonderful comments by people who are score 1 and 0 (anything at -1 is usually unfit for human consumption and will scar the kiddies)
i know, which is a shame as this is probly one of best series to be playing, i mean you think and learn during it (god forbid this happens in the days of FPS games (minus a few like system shock and deus ex which actually involve thinking)) I would love to see a fourth in the series.
Actually doesn't the Longest Journey have an M or a T rating (can't find my box anywhere around here) Not exactly something i would perscribe for a kid anyways, great game though.
What about The Journeyman Project series. Much more entertaining than the myst series, and there is deffinately more thinking involved (or atleast their was for me). Plus, time travel just plain kicks ass.
Why would anyone want a robotic dog? Can you teach it to bit the mailman? Can i teach it to save peoples lives? Looks to me all that these will be used for is to do stupid tricks and other little things. Why would someone possibly pay 850+ (be realistic here, there will be shipping) for something that you can't do a whole lot with. Hell you can't even eat it to save myself. Now make one that can fetch ducks, bite people, and gerenally do the security thing of attacking intruders and you might have a useful item on your hands. But this looks like just another gimmicy useless thing to come out of Sony.
If they ask 'what is wrong with this' you politely (always politely, it will never help your case to be rude or arrigant) tell them your possition, how this would hurt you, and what you think should be done with the bill to make it work better. Their primary goal (supposedly) is to see that government is better serving those that it governs, but recently it looks like they are moving away from this. If you let them know your concerns I am fairly sure that they will listen to them and prohaps act on them, but being rude is teh quickest route to getting yourself ignored. People, you should never underestimate the power of politeness.
I don't see why you shouldn't write them, just explain to them in clearly and exactly what you are concerned about in what ever law they is going on in the legal system (trying to make this not only apply to the current situation). Your goal with this should be to have them at minimum understand your point of view and prohaps agree with it. It is entirely possible to with a single letter to influence multiple congresspeople, as I know that they do talk to each other.
Remember: the only way for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing. and looking at the past trackrecord, lately that is what has been happening.
that this and all other bills of its type will die off before they even have a chance to live. As any good bastard operator does I fear wedges, and this looks surprisingly like the thin edge of a wedge to me.
Although many will say that the DMCA is the real thin edge and that we are on our way down the wedge, I disagree. I really don't see what is so wrong with the DMCA. If you are goign to bypass encryption ask for permission first. And instead of bitching about not having a DVD player for why doesn't someone just write the MPAA and see what they need to do to make a DVD player for and not be inviolation of the DMCA. Hell if nothing can be done, just play it through a set top DVD player into a TV tuner in your computer or some such shit. In stead of bitching about everything some of you should actually get up and do something about it.
However this SSSCA inspires me to do a little writing to a holder of a political position to give him/her a peice of my mind (and maybe a peice of some friends minds on this subject as well, because we all know that a collective voice is better received than a single voice). If this doesn't inspire you to write than you need to check your moral meter (or you are not in the US in which case i kind of envy you as i am just getting pissed at the US right now.)
This would be true if we lived in a democracy here, but we don't, it is actually a republic with democratic qualities. but yes, this country is full of idiots and morons. Thank god this isn't a true democracy or we could be in a lot worse shape.
what about:
AtheOS
Enlightenment
Gnome
KDE
Motif
Lightstep
Afterstep
Windows 3.x (or older)
Windows NT
Windows 9x
MacOS
Amiga
BeOS
none of the above
hell if you are going to give a list to choose from none of the above should always be there
we were "the country of the free", now we are more or less "the country of the not-so-free". I hear they are aiming for "The country with less freedom than China".
if we don't protect our freedom we loose it. If we don't know about freedoms that we have (and a lot of the people out there don't) we will lose them with out knowing that we needed to fight for them. Instead of sitting on our asses in here we should be out there (in all countries) trying to keep things like this from happening.
The old saying is true, The price of freedom is eternal vidulance (sp?). If we stop watching what they are doing someone is going to come by and swipe freedom from us. It is the nature of governments to in the end control the people, how they do it is what makes each governing type different.
well, they charge more than enough for their software, for their prices i should be able to get twice as much crap as they give me. Oh wait, was there a reason i would want a back up of any of their products to begin with when i can just find a free solution instead?
what about my wang's freedom to be seen, hmmm? Now you all are oppressing my wang. but then again that is what the world is about, oppressing me and my wang:)
Not to mention they could bring in the thought police because what if i circumvent the encryption in my head. Does that make my brain a circumvetion device and thus illegal under the DMCA? I wonder how far they really are willing to take this. Truely a scary thought.
Taking this to the logical extreme that seems to be the popular thing in governments. We will one day have 24 hour survalance because they need to be sure that we are not violating the DMCA or some other messed up law. Honestly where will this end? My guess is with systems like Carnavore, or prohaps make all computers hooked in to an infostructure be monitored for illegal activity. I forsee eventually devices like CD-Writers will be made illegal to the general public
you forgot what about when the HDD get fragmented beyond all recognition (which inevitablly happens to any HDD with windows on it, and defrag under win2k seems to take forever on large drives) maybe we will luck out and it will utilize something other than FAT/FAT32/NTFS.
on a side note, why the hell can't M$ include the drivers and what not needed for maintaining and reading a non FAT/FAT32/NTFS partition. If they could just do this it would make my world a lot easier (right now i can just read both drives from the *nix partions)
sure why not cluster them, won't do you much good anyways. what would they do help each other move:)
actually come to think of it that would be an interesting thing, kinda like a remote controled voltron.
LITTLE REMOTE CONTROLLED THINGIES UNITE TO FORM SLIGHTLY BIGGER REMOTE CONTROLLED THINGY
what is a blub-niggarath (related to shubby?) and if where does one obtain such a fun toy. also yo need the Cthulhu plushy to go with your other evils if blub-niggarath and Azagblob are what i think they are
From what I remember from some of my friends playing FFX it wasn't any better than the usual drek that they seem to like to pump out. Why can't they spend a while longer working on the games and make them better. 10 games in the FF series (- FFMQ and FFT) and only 2 (FFVI and FFIX) of them worth playing through. That is pretty bad for a company that has been around for as long as Squaresoft has been. Why can't they release more games like Chrono Trigger. Looks don't make the game (unless you are playing Myst I/II/III, in that case it the game (why ppl play screensavers i don't know))
Also, Death and Rebirth was entertaining, atleast the last half of it was. So much better that was than the last 2 eps of the TV series.
And well tentacle pr0n in anime isn't nearly as scary as the thought that it also exists in their live action section as well (i am not joking!)
don't give them ideas, they might try it. who knows what reason they could come up with. maybe the next step is to tax all time spent on networks (intra and inter) because you know the only reason to be connected is so that we can steal more music and videos from them in an monitored fashion
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They should make it so that the higher your level is the worse an item an enemy will drop (maybe determined by the level of monster to level of player or something like that). Basically making it so that a lvl 50 can't go around farming early creatures to get decent things to sell, instead he gets less goodthings out of this. As I see it, this should kill off most of the farming that goes on, and make it easier for newer people to get the stuff they need.
Reminds me of the local taco bell, I went in there once with a $50 and a $2 and they refused the $50. So, I handed them the $2 and they denied me service and tried to call the cops saying that my $2 was 'funny money' because they 'know full well that $2 don't exist'. The cops came and the manager and staff were all embarassed that they were in the wrong.
It is a shame that people have a threshhold of 2 or more, I have seen some wonderful comments by people who are score 1 and 0 (anything at -1 is usually unfit for human consumption and will scar the kiddies)
i know, which is a shame as this is probly one of best series to be playing, i mean you think and learn during it (god forbid this happens in the days of FPS games (minus a few like system shock and deus ex which actually involve thinking)) I would love to see a fourth in the series.
Actually doesn't the Longest Journey have an M or a T rating (can't find my box anywhere around here) Not exactly something i would perscribe for a kid anyways, great game though.
What about The Journeyman Project series. Much more entertaining than the myst series, and there is deffinately more thinking involved (or atleast their was for me). Plus, time travel just plain kicks ass.
If you call not shooting animals for food violent, or did you end up like the Donner party :). Oregon Trail: the first hunting game (and only good one)
If i run X windows on this will it really be an X-box :)
because MicroSoft has made them its bitch :)
Why would anyone want a robotic dog? Can you teach it to bit the mailman? Can i teach it to save peoples lives? Looks to me all that these will be used for is to do stupid tricks and other little things. Why would someone possibly pay 850+ (be realistic here, there will be shipping) for something that you can't do a whole lot with. Hell you can't even eat it to save myself. Now make one that can fetch ducks, bite people, and gerenally do the security thing of attacking intruders and you might have a useful item on your hands. But this looks like just another gimmicy useless thing to come out of Sony.
If they ask 'what is wrong with this' you politely (always politely, it will never help your case to be rude or arrigant) tell them your possition, how this would hurt you, and what you think should be done with the bill to make it work better. Their primary goal (supposedly) is to see that government is better serving those that it governs, but recently it looks like they are moving away from this. If you let them know your concerns I am fairly sure that they will listen to them and prohaps act on them, but being rude is teh quickest route to getting yourself ignored. People, you should never underestimate the power of politeness.
I don't see why you shouldn't write them, just explain to them in clearly and exactly what you are concerned about in what ever law they is going on in the legal system (trying to make this not only apply to the current situation). Your goal with this should be to have them at minimum understand your point of view and prohaps agree with it. It is entirely possible to with a single letter to influence multiple congresspeople, as I know that they do talk to each other.
Remember: the only way for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing. and looking at the past trackrecord, lately that is what has been happening.
that this and all other bills of its type will die off before they even have a chance to live. As any good bastard operator does I fear wedges, and this looks surprisingly like the thin edge of a wedge to me.
Although many will say that the DMCA is the real thin edge and that we are on our way down the wedge, I disagree. I really don't see what is so wrong with the DMCA. If you are goign to bypass encryption ask for permission first. And instead of bitching about not having a DVD player for why doesn't someone just write the MPAA and see what they need to do to make a DVD player for and not be inviolation of the DMCA. Hell if nothing can be done, just play it through a set top DVD player into a TV tuner in your computer or some such shit. In stead of bitching about everything some of you should actually get up and do something about it.
However this SSSCA inspires me to do a little writing to a holder of a political position to give him/her a peice of my mind (and maybe a peice of some friends minds on this subject as well, because we all know that a collective voice is better received than a single voice). If this doesn't inspire you to write than you need to check your moral meter (or you are not in the US in which case i kind of envy you as i am just getting pissed at the US right now.)
This would be true if we lived in a democracy here, but we don't, it is actually a republic with democratic qualities. but yes, this country is full of idiots and morons. Thank god this isn't a true democracy or we could be in a lot worse shape.
heh, funny this hasn't been touched with a -1 offtopic yet.
Although it does seem to be an interesting idea of a way to get a post of yours up a few points using the stupidity of others.
what about: AtheOS Enlightenment Gnome KDE Motif Lightstep Afterstep Windows 3.x (or older) Windows NT Windows 9x MacOS Amiga BeOS none of the above hell if you are going to give a list to choose from none of the above should always be there
we were "the country of the free", now we are more or less "the country of the not-so-free". I hear they are aiming for "The country with less freedom than China". if we don't protect our freedom we loose it. If we don't know about freedoms that we have (and a lot of the people out there don't) we will lose them with out knowing that we needed to fight for them. Instead of sitting on our asses in here we should be out there (in all countries) trying to keep things like this from happening. The old saying is true, The price of freedom is eternal vidulance (sp?). If we stop watching what they are doing someone is going to come by and swipe freedom from us. It is the nature of governments to in the end control the people, how they do it is what makes each governing type different.
well, they charge more than enough for their software, for their prices i should be able to get twice as much crap as they give me. Oh wait, was there a reason i would want a back up of any of their products to begin with when i can just find a free solution instead?
what about my wang's freedom to be seen, hmmm? Now you all are oppressing my wang. but then again that is what the world is about, oppressing me and my wang :)
Not to mention they could bring in the thought police because what if i circumvent the encryption in my head. Does that make my brain a circumvetion device and thus illegal under the DMCA? I wonder how far they really are willing to take this. Truely a scary thought. Taking this to the logical extreme that seems to be the popular thing in governments. We will one day have 24 hour survalance because they need to be sure that we are not violating the DMCA or some other messed up law. Honestly where will this end? My guess is with systems like Carnavore, or prohaps make all computers hooked in to an infostructure be monitored for illegal activity. I forsee eventually devices like CD-Writers will be made illegal to the general public
you forgot what about when the HDD get fragmented beyond all recognition (which inevitablly happens to any HDD with windows on it, and defrag under win2k seems to take forever on large drives) maybe we will luck out and it will utilize something other than FAT/FAT32/NTFS.
on a side note, why the hell can't M$ include the drivers and what not needed for maintaining and reading a non FAT/FAT32/NTFS partition. If they could just do this it would make my world a lot easier (right now i can just read both drives from the *nix partions)
sure why not cluster them, won't do you much good anyways. what would they do help each other move :)
actually come to think of it that would be an interesting thing, kinda like a remote controled voltron.
LITTLE REMOTE CONTROLLED THINGIES UNITE TO FORM SLIGHTLY BIGGER REMOTE CONTROLLED THINGY
what is a blub-niggarath (related to shubby?) and if where does one obtain such a fun toy. also yo need the Cthulhu plushy to go with your other evils if blub-niggarath and Azagblob are what i think they are
From what I remember from some of my friends playing FFX it wasn't any better than the usual drek that they seem to like to pump out. Why can't they spend a while longer working on the games and make them better. 10 games in the FF series (- FFMQ and FFT) and only 2 (FFVI and FFIX) of them worth playing through. That is pretty bad for a company that has been around for as long as Squaresoft has been. Why can't they release more games like Chrono Trigger. Looks don't make the game (unless you are playing Myst I/II/III, in that case it the game (why ppl play screensavers i don't know))
Also, Death and Rebirth was entertaining, atleast the last half of it was. So much better that was than the last 2 eps of the TV series.
And well tentacle pr0n in anime isn't nearly as scary as the thought that it also exists in their live action section as well (i am not joking!)
don't give them ideas, they might try it. who knows what reason they could come up with. maybe the next step is to tax all time spent on networks (intra and inter) because you know the only reason to be connected is so that we can steal more music and videos from them in an monitored fashion