Yeah, but at least they didn't have Bea Arthur as a singing cantina owner. Some things do improve with time. That said, I definitely think Harvey Corman could have played a good Sith.
Hey! I liked 8. It was the game that got me interested in the Ultima series. But you're right about one thing: 7 was the shining silmaril to EA's Morgoth.
I find it rather ironic that all discussion of evolutionary science revolves around my (specifically my) religion. You can talk about religion without talking about evolution, but you can't talk about evolution without talking about religion.
Simply put, the reason more people believe in my religion than your science is simple social Darwinism: religion provides more utility and "intangible good" to the masses than the knowledge they came from ape-men, and is therefore more easily promulgated. Evolutionary science simply has less to offer in direct benefit to people. Find a way to cure a man's social ills, provide peace of mind, and promote self-betterment (the supposed purpose of organized religion, and those aspects that caused Karl Marx to brand it the "opiate of the masses") through evolutionary theory and you've got a shot. Until then, no one really has a reason to care about ape-men fossils.
Whenever a sweatshop closes, a family starves. Now, I don't know if that's necessarily how goldfarming operations work (certainly not to the same degree), but it seems like more people stand to lose more from goldfarming's collapse than players have to gain.
That crack-whore welfare mama with 18 children is more fit evolutionary wise than the lonly artist who creats beautifull paintings but kills himself due to depression before breeding....or the nerdy brainiac who makes mad bank and still can't get a date. Thanks, Darwin; you suck and it's all your fault.
It's quite apparent to plenty of thoughtful people that various forces have been planting the seeds of public mindshare to support a US invasion of Iran.
"Thoughtful" people know that intelligent critical analysis requires understanding the context of the message. The context is Slashdot. Based on my knowledge context, I can "thouhtfully" conclude that the OP is a kook.
The cynic in me says that this story is a careful plant by the Bush Administration
Yes, because Slashdot is a proven shill for the administration. CmdrTaco is Bush Minister of Propoganda. I swear, sometimes I wonder how you people find your pants in the morning without help. Take off the tinfoil hat, it's out of season.
The best example I can come up with from WoW is when I logged in and spent 2 hours in an area trying to collect iron ore. The problem is that a group of farmers were "patrolling" the spawn locations and grabbing them as soon as they appeared.
Another problem is that farmers have inflated the price of many items by selling them far, far over value at the auction houses. If anyone offers the same item for less, they will buyout and turn it at their own elevated price.
Why don't you say children? Isn't that what you mean?
No; I know many grown men who forsake jobs because it takes too much time away from WoW. Then again, some of these same people forsake school, too, for the same reason.
And you're, I don't usually work 80 hours a week (unless it's near product release and I have to put in extra time), but I can't consider all my non-work time "free time." Work + WoW != sustainable healthy lifestyle.
It's definitely not fair. Some people spend hours upon hours, sometimes in-game days to tradeskill (made harder by the presence of Chinese farmers) and acquire in-game wealth. Others spend a minor amount of cash to instantly acquire this same wealth (and in a manner that enables and encourages further Chinese farming). At first I found this incredibly unfair.
Now I have another take on it. Note that I do not, nor will I ever purchase gold. But as a working professional, I don't have the same time to devote to the game that high-school and college students do. I don't want gaming to become a 9-5 job just to have fun. I only have a few hours on the weekends to play. I will never be abel to effectively tradeskill. I will level once every two weeks, if that.
For some, buying gold is an efficient way to obtain materials for tradeskilling that would otherwise require hours of dedicated playing; time that many people (like me) just don't have. Even now, I'm looking at the mats required for weaponsmithing, and all I can do is throw up my hands and say, "I don't have time to do this." I don't know anymore. I wish Blizzard would make the game funner for impatient people who can't devote their life to the game.
And yes, I used to live in Germany. American pop culture is very prevelant, but are American products? That McDonald's I went to every week in Berlin used German beef, served in a German store, with fry cartons printed somewhere in Europe closer than the US. Coca-Cola is bottled locally everywhere it is sold. Marlboro... you got me there.
While I don't like outsourcing from a consumer perspective (spend four hours on the phone with a Dell "technician" that can't speak English), I think there is a point to be made in the fact that we don't try nearly as hard to sell our crap overseas as foreigners do selling their crap to us. Outsourcing wouldn't be such an issue if we weren't the only people buying our stuff.
I agree. While I hate the idea of telco's charging for better service, I think it should be up to market pressure to force them to stop, not government regulation. There are many web companies already suggesting they will not deal with such a system and boycott such nefarious telco's.
On the other hand, once you invite the government into your internet to regulate it, they are there to stay.
We're not just using wiki for engineering. We use it for cross-displinary communication and documentation. Engineering is only a part of the software development "ecosystem," and other teams should be able to understand what the engineers are doing without having an in-depth knowledge of coding tools. Which is, essentially, what VSS, CVS, and Subversion are. Yes, you can use them creatively for other applications very well, but that is not the purpose for which those tools were created and designed, for source code versioning.
I also don't understand; how do you conclude that tech. doc. developers who don't know code versioning tools don't have technical degrees? My formal CS education didn't even touch VSS or CVS.
Or at least the (pick one) CVS, SourceSafe, or Sourceforge? Why must it be Wiki when there is a perfectly good ecosystem of software that ALREADY DOES THIS JOB?!?!?!?
All the options you listed are for engineers only. If only engineers are involved in your design and development process, that's fine. For us, wiki is a great way to document our software development so that it is accessible not just to software developers, but also to documentation developers and tech support. It's great for this purpose because it is orders of magnitude easier to use than a source-versioning system (which is not anything at all like what you would use a wiki for). It's been a great boon to us, and I suggest other development teams look into using it, as well.
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...will France please, please, PLEASE for once grow some balls and stand up us? This IP crap is getting old.
Yeah, but at least they didn't have Bea Arthur as a singing cantina owner. Some things do improve with time. That said, I definitely think Harvey Corman could have played a good Sith.
Let's not forget my own personal hero:
Ed Rooney: Are you aware that Ferris does not have what we consider to be an exemplary attendance record?
Mrs. Bueller: Uh, no.
Ed Rooney: He's been absent nine times.
Mrs. Bueller: Nine times?
Ed Rooney: Nine times. (Checks computer screen, Ferris's absence totals have counted down to two.)
Ferris at his home PC: I asked for a car, I got a computer. How's that for being born under a bad sign?
(Shamelessly lifted)
A spirit of bipartisanship bridges the right and left in harmonious accord!
*puke*
Now what am I going to do with my afternoon?
Get drunk. Play a game.
Hey! I liked 8. It was the game that got me interested in the Ultima series. But you're right about one thing: 7 was the shining silmaril to EA's Morgoth.
I find it rather ironic that all discussion of evolutionary science revolves around my (specifically my) religion. You can talk about religion without talking about evolution, but you can't talk about evolution without talking about religion.
Simply put, the reason more people believe in my religion than your science is simple social Darwinism: religion provides more utility and "intangible good" to the masses than the knowledge they came from ape-men, and is therefore more easily promulgated. Evolutionary science simply has less to offer in direct benefit to people. Find a way to cure a man's social ills, provide peace of mind, and promote self-betterment (the supposed purpose of organized religion, and those aspects that caused Karl Marx to brand it the "opiate of the masses") through evolutionary theory and you've got a shot. Until then, no one really has a reason to care about ape-men fossils.
Whenever a sweatshop closes, a family starves. Now, I don't know if that's necessarily how goldfarming operations work (certainly not to the same degree), but it seems like more people stand to lose more from goldfarming's collapse than players have to gain.
No more so than it's child's play to decrypt SSH packets when given access to the OpenSSH source code, I would imagine.
That crack-whore welfare mama with 18 children is more fit evolutionary wise than the lonly artist who creats beautifull paintings but kills himself due to depression before breeding. ...or the nerdy brainiac who makes mad bank and still can't get a date. Thanks, Darwin; you suck and it's all your fault.
It's quite apparent to plenty of thoughtful people that various forces have been planting the seeds of public mindshare to support a US invasion of Iran.
"Thoughtful" people know that intelligent critical analysis requires understanding the context of the message. The context is Slashdot. Based on my knowledge context, I can "thouhtfully" conclude that the OP is a kook.
The cynic in me says that this story is a careful plant by the Bush Administration
Yes, because Slashdot is a proven shill for the administration. CmdrTaco is Bush Minister of Propoganda. I swear, sometimes I wonder how you people find your pants in the morning without help. Take off the tinfoil hat, it's out of season.
They still have that on the web? For some strange reason, the entire internet shed its ad clutter the day dowloaded Firefox + AdBlock + Filterset.G.
I like the religious schism analogy whether or not it's accurate. Does that make Microsoft the Ottoman Empire? Apple?
Apple is the heretic that must be burned.
The best example I can come up with from WoW is when I logged in and spent 2 hours in an area trying to collect iron ore. The problem is that a group of farmers were "patrolling" the spawn locations and grabbing them as soon as they appeared.
Another problem is that farmers have inflated the price of many items by selling them far, far over value at the auction houses. If anyone offers the same item for less, they will buyout and turn it at their own elevated price.
Why don't you say children? Isn't that what you mean?
No; I know many grown men who forsake jobs because it takes too much time away from WoW. Then again, some of these same people forsake school, too, for the same reason.
And you're, I don't usually work 80 hours a week (unless it's near product release and I have to put in extra time), but I can't consider all my non-work time "free time." Work + WoW != sustainable healthy lifestyle.
It's definitely not fair. Some people spend hours upon hours, sometimes in-game days to tradeskill (made harder by the presence of Chinese farmers) and acquire in-game wealth. Others spend a minor amount of cash to instantly acquire this same wealth (and in a manner that enables and encourages further Chinese farming). At first I found this incredibly unfair.
Now I have another take on it. Note that I do not, nor will I ever purchase gold. But as a working professional, I don't have the same time to devote to the game that high-school and college students do. I don't want gaming to become a 9-5 job just to have fun. I only have a few hours on the weekends to play. I will never be abel to effectively tradeskill. I will level once every two weeks, if that.
For some, buying gold is an efficient way to obtain materials for tradeskilling that would otherwise require hours of dedicated playing; time that many people (like me) just don't have. Even now, I'm looking at the mats required for weaponsmithing, and all I can do is throw up my hands and say, "I don't have time to do this." I don't know anymore. I wish Blizzard would make the game funner for impatient people who can't devote their life to the game.
Say what? Where did this "fact" come from? Have you ever been overseas?
The US's foreign trade deficit is a fact, to the tune of $726 billion.
And yes, I used to live in Germany. American pop culture is very prevelant, but are American products? That McDonald's I went to every week in Berlin used German beef, served in a German store, with fry cartons printed somewhere in Europe closer than the US. Coca-Cola is bottled locally everywhere it is sold. Marlboro... you got me there.
While I don't like outsourcing from a consumer perspective (spend four hours on the phone with a Dell "technician" that can't speak English), I think there is a point to be made in the fact that we don't try nearly as hard to sell our crap overseas as foreigners do selling their crap to us. Outsourcing wouldn't be such an issue if we weren't the only people buying our stuff.
what is sooo bad about government regulation?
Because it takes control from the market (which you are a part of) to an entity that does not always do the right thing. Like wiretapping.
I agree. While I hate the idea of telco's charging for better service, I think it should be up to market pressure to force them to stop, not government regulation. There are many web companies already suggesting they will not deal with such a system and boycott such nefarious telco's.
On the other hand, once you invite the government into your internet to regulate it, they are there to stay.
After all... The goal of the Ninja is to be able to aquire information undetected.
NO. The real purpose of the ninja is to flip out and kill people.
We're not just using wiki for engineering. We use it for cross-displinary communication and documentation. Engineering is only a part of the software development "ecosystem," and other teams should be able to understand what the engineers are doing without having an in-depth knowledge of coding tools. Which is, essentially, what VSS, CVS, and Subversion are. Yes, you can use them creatively for other applications very well, but that is not the purpose for which those tools were created and designed, for source code versioning.
I also don't understand; how do you conclude that tech. doc. developers who don't know code versioning tools don't have technical degrees? My formal CS education didn't even touch VSS or CVS.
Or at least the (pick one) CVS, SourceSafe, or Sourceforge? Why must it be Wiki when there is a perfectly good ecosystem of software that ALREADY DOES THIS JOB?!?!?!?
All the options you listed are for engineers only. If only engineers are involved in your design and development process, that's fine. For us, wiki is a great way to document our software development so that it is accessible not just to software developers, but also to documentation developers and tech support. It's great for this purpose because it is orders of magnitude easier to use than a source-versioning system (which is not anything at all like what you would use a wiki for). It's been a great boon to us, and I suggest other development teams look into using it, as well.
Better get your bus ticket to DC now, then.